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Jordan Hubbard moves to new OpenDarwin.org

Posted by pudge on from the tis-the-work-of-satan-i-tell-ye dept.

bootc writes "Last week we heard the news that Jordan Hubbard was leaving the FreeBSD Core Team. I received an email about the new OpenDarwin.org web site and had a look around, just to find that our friend Jordan was member of the OpenDarwin Core Team!" Apple has consolidated its Open Source web site, including Darwin, under its developer site, while the Internet Software Consortium is hosting the independent OpenDarwin.org, which will develop OpenDarwin with the developer community and collaborate with Apple to merge OpenDarwin technologies into Darwin and Mac OS X.

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  1. Suck it GNU hippies by Bitter+Old+Man · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    It's funny watching you open source knobbers get all worked up over OS X. Talk about being jealous...

    Apple debuts the most technologically advanced windowing system ever, and it's:
    "Aqua/Quartz is so slow! And it doesn't support network transparency! And Aqua is so candy-coated and ugly! Hahahah!" Meanwhile 2,000 different Aqua themes appear on the various themes sites within days.

    Apple bases their OS on FreeBSD, something that ALL geeks are supposed to be keen on, and it's:
    "They've bastardized the tree hierarchy, and used a microkernel. Microkernels are so slooow."

    Apple brings third-party developers like Adobe and MS onto the bandwagon - developers which Linux has been trying and failing to emulate since day one - and it's:
    "We never needed that proprietary crap anyway, Gimp is 500% better than Photoshop and OpenOffice kills MS Office and... and... and your mom!"

    Apple includes Apache, NFS, and Samba connectivity and it's:
    "Enabling/disabling my daemons with one click is so inflexible. I want more configurability."

    Apple retains their trademark simplicity in plug & play. Mice, keyboards, scanners, you name it Just Work. The open-source community replies:
    "You can do that today in ObscureLinuxDistro 8.3. You just have to make sure you've got x, y, and z modules loaded, use modprobe for this otherwise type cat /proc/modules and you'll see a list of modules. Now go into the XFree86 config file and make sure you see these lines, and..."

    Once again, open source software finishes last place in technology and usability, and its zealotry continue to deny it. Get out of the basement and into the real world, pizzafaces. Your mom.