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GNU-Darwin Goes Beta
proclus writes "OSX.1 users can now install the GNU-Darwin base distribution automatically with one command. As Root: "curl http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/one_stop | csh"." This assummes you have curl or wget or something. From there you can install gnome, abiword, gimp or whatever. Looks pretty smooth (although I'm kinda confused how you get back to OSX.1 from there ;)
OK, so they took from BSD, gave to GPL, then mixed the result with something as absurdly proprietary as Curl. Are they trying to see how many people they can piss off with one OS?
As a BSD "thief", I get nothing.
If I were a GPL lover, I would get tainted with Curl.
As someone who appreciates a good commercial package, I am left with concerns that they will decide to turn it over to "the community" which is just a synonym for abandonment.
Of course, that's just me. They could please me by keeping the BSD codebase that they modified BSD, and then they could run whatever proprietary code they wanted on top of it.
I expect that others may be more or less difficult to please. Then of course there are the users, who don't care about any of that crap. If they can please the users it might be a moot point. This could end up being part of the "open monopoly" if it ran on x86.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
> "OSX.1 users can now install the GNU-Darwin base
> distribution automatically with one command. As
> Root: "curl http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/one_stop | csh"."
Congratulations, GNU, on entrance into the 1980's.
Now if someone can just figure out how to make a batch file and make that double-clickable on the desktop.
I am for the complete Trantorization of Earth.