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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. Is Darwin better than FreeBSD in any way? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    From an OS point of view (not GUI) is Darwin better than the BSDs in any technical way?

  2. Re:OT: Story icon by piecewise · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just think it's amazing that there's a hexley.com!

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  3. Re:Interesting News by Ed+Avis · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Why is Darwin counted as 'BSD'? Last time I looked it was a Mach-derived microkernel with a BSD personality layered on top. Linux has a better claim to being 'BSD' if you define it that loosely.

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  4. New Icon by loconet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I believe slashdot will need a new icon image for Open Darwin's Hexley

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  5. Re:Suck it GNU hippies by jdavidb · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Microkernels are so slooow.

    If the GNU people say that, then why are they building a microkernel-based OS called HURD?

    I know the community can't be completely represented with generalizations, but to take myself as an example, I haven't complained about any of the things you've mentioned. My only concern is licensing.

    If Aqua's good (and I believe it is), we'll build one.

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  6. Re:Suck it GNU hippies by Lars+T. · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hrrm, is the development speed of HURD so slow because it's a microkernel? ;-)

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  7. Re:Suck it GNU hippies by coolgeek · · Score: 2, Interesting

    BOM, you hit the nail smack on the head! Stated differently, Linux is for people that want to do stuff *to* their computer, OS X is for people that want to do stuff *with* their computer. For me, both paradigms are appropriate for different challenges, that's why I use/tweak on both.

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  8. Re:Actually, we have something closer. by larry+bagina · · Score: 2, Interesting

    what's great isn't that it was ported to cocoa, it's that it was recompiled for cocoa.

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