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GNU-Darwin Dropping Cocoa, PPC Support

Posted by michael on from the whoa dept.

Johnny Mnemonic writes "MacSlash is reporting that the Gnu-Darwin ports project has taken issue with some of Apple's current policies, to the extent of: 'GNU-Darwin will not support or distribute any software which links to proprietary libraries, and that includes Cocoa, Carbon, CoreAudio, etc. There will be no native package manager from GNU-Darwin (pkg_add suffices). Second, we will be moving our operations to x86, and we are putting the ppc collection into maintenance mode.' Astonished reaction on MacSlash, and recognition of the Fink alternative. Is this a worthy principled stand, or is it more like Kruschev banging his shoe in the UN? Will this help or hurt Apple's adoption of GPL technology?"

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  1. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    PPC DROPS YOU!

  2. Second post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    early to bed, early to rise!

  3. Obligatory Troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    With the gnu-darwin project falling down the craphole, and the incessive sloweness of Mac OSX, I find it fairly obvious that BSD is quite dead as an operating system.

    1. Re:Obligatory Troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Offtopic? How rude.

      In Soviet Russia, you rate the moderators!

  4. Re:Seems to me... by stevenbee · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    D'oh !

    : )

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  5. Who cares by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who gives a fuck. Apple sucks. GNU/Darwin is a curiosity.

  6. That really hurts! by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who bangs his shoe, now, honestly!

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  7. Re:Seems to me... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, it's just dying .

  8. Slashdotted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    MacSlash got dotted.

  9. Re:Someone has to say it by PoiBoy · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    +5 Insightful. Too bad I'm out of mod points today.

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  10. The vote is for WAR WAR WAR by NDPTAL85 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We need to invade Iraq for several reasons.

    1. To enact regime change. Saddam is out, whoever we want is in.
    2. To secure our access to oil. We don't actually want to seize the oil, just make sure its always available.
    3. To practice and perfect our urban warfare techniques. Since we've never fought a large war in an urban setting, we need to fight this one in order to gain the necessary experience.

    And yes for all intents and purposes the project is useless in comparison to the already established Linux and BSD operating systems. Hell even HURD's more useful now.

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    1. Re:The vote is for WAR WAR WAR by Lars+T. · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      4. Nuking Iraq will lead to a Nuclear Winter, which will stop the so called "Global Warming".

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  11. Re:Utter Stupidity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Evolution has no direction and no goal.

    Evolution simply states that creatures best adapted to their environment will procreate more.

  12. Re:Useless Trumped Up Developer Puffery by reallocate · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I've no problem with the principles of software developers who adhere to free/open source beliefs. But there is no necessary connection between adherence to that ideology and original ideas for desktop consumer software.

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