Darwin 6.0.2 for x86 Released

Jos Louis writes "Apple has released the x86 version 6.0.2 of Darwin, the FreeBSD-based core of Mac OS X. You can download the bootable ISO on Apple's site."

Comments

Where's the source?

[Anonymous Coward]

There is no source. The source remains unreleased because the source does not exist. The real story is the part that Apple is not telling us: The fact that they have evolved an organic "force" capable of developing a kernel directly, as executable machine code, without human intervention. The implications are terrifying and profound.

Why do you think they called it.... DARWIN?!

Re:Where's the source?

[mr_z_beeblebrox]

The real story is the part that Apple is not telling us: The fact that they have evolved an organic "force" capable of developing a kernel directly, as executable machine code, without human intervention.

The part you were unaware of, is that MS is miles ahead of them as Outlook 2002 can automatically run organic machine code without human intervention.

Re:Where's the source?

[Ilan Volow]

That's no AI. That's Clippy. He's been running in spite of human intervention for years.

Re:Where's the source?

[Anonymous Coward]

The irony here is that you are making fun of the first version of a Microsoft email program that does NOT give users access to executable attachments, and does NOT let an outside program use it to send email without approval gained from a popup window.

But it does eat babies.

Really! You can test this yourself. If you or someone you know has a computer with Outlook 2002 installed, leave it on overnight, and watch. At some point between midnight and 2 AM (what exactly triggers this feature is as of yet unknown, although the time of activation seems to oscillate within its two-hour window with the phase of the moon) Outlook 2002 will climb out of the computer, skitter to a window, climb outside, and hunt the streets until it finds a house containing a baby, at which point it will enter, consume the baby bloodily, and return to your computer. If during the entrance or exit of either your or the victim's house it encounters a locked window, it will shatter the glass and continue.

This behavior has been independently confirmed numerous times since the release of Outlook 2002, and yet so far Microsoft has declined to comment on it. I suggest you go read the rather long bugtraq thread on the subject.

Re:Not a troll

[makisupa]

Two words, one hyphenated:

Multi-boot fetishists.

If I can get this to work...

[rickthewizkid]

... do I get a "Darwin Award?"

Heaven knows I'll be spending enough time hacking on this that I won't have *time* for kids... :)

Seriously, kudos to Apple for releasing this... it was a good treat for the day my DSL came back to life!

RickTheWizKid

I submitted the above anonymously...

[Anonymous Coward]

...because it's just not all that funny. Why the hell are you people modding it up?! Get a grip!

15 mins later

[MrFreezeBU]

15 minutes and the reg server is spouting 500 server errors...Are they running X-servs?? j/k

Re:Anyone actually use Darwin?

[Anonymous Coward]

I use it because my operating system, Mac OS X, runs on it.

Re:Supported Hardware - USE THE FORK!

[kin_korn_karn]

There is no fork.

er... that's not right...

PC to Mac

[u19925]

I downloaded Darwin and loaded on my computer. Upon reboot, it evolved into Mac.

Darwin

[Zen Programmer]

Only Apple would have the balls/ingenuity/vanity to name their product Darwin.

In other news, Windows has released a competing OS codenamed 'God'.

Re:Not a troll

[Inthewire]

There's nothing stopping anyone from writing their own codec and having QuickTime support it.

That's a relief! I thought the fact that I know dick about programming would have stopped me. Good to know that isn't gonna be a problem.

Re:GCC

[borg]

I agree. The problem that I have had is that I'm too lazy to type four extra characters each time I mean to say GNU/Linux. I've solved this by implementing a perl script that scans STDIN for the phrase "GNU/Linux" and replaces it with "GNU/GNU/Linux." This is really handy for me, since I do with to honor the contribution of the GNU project to GNU/GNU/Linux, but I don't want to be bothered having to type GNU/GNU/Linux when just GNU/Linux conveys the same information.

I think there's still a few bugs in it, though. I'll post it to freshmeat when I've debugged it a bit more.

Darwin Switch Commercials

[Oculus Habent]

I don't think we'll see any Darwin/x86 Switch commercials...

I was typing this shell script on my dad's RedHat box, and it was a really good shell script, and I went to save and it was like "bleep bleep bleep bleep" and, like, half of it was gone. And I was like, "unnnh?". And I had to write it over, but it wasn't as good 'cause I had to do it fast...

Re:Not a troll

[multiplexo]

Hmmmmm, yessss, multi-boot fetishism. Black leather stilettos that lace up to the crotch. Cowboy boots with spurs, Chrome studded biker boots, FreeBSD, Win98, OS/2, BeOS. Ohhhhhhhh, I'm so hard now.......