OpenDarwin.org Releases Darwin With Fixes

An anonymous reader writes "OpenDarwin released a 'fixed' version of the Darwin 6.0.2 ISO (the OpenDarwin-20030213 Binary Release) for both x86 and PPC. It is currently installing, so I can't tell you all what works now, etc. Hopefully I can use my old PC box as a server with this..." Apparently, it is mostly a recompile, without local OpenDarwin modifications. It doesn't include perl, pending integration of perl 5.8 ... could this mean Mac OS X will finally have a current perl in the next Mac OS X release?

Comments

Re:Perl version

[Ranger Rick]

5.6.0 has a number of nasty bugs that (at the very least) 5.6.1 fix, especially in unicode support. Also, Apple built their perl in a way that makes their perl modules go into an essentially unversioned directory, which makes it harder to upgrade perl as time goes on.

The longer they wait, the messier the upgrade is going to be...

Re:Darwin x86 or BSD???

[Gropo]

Depends on what you need it for... If you want a personal file server for a predominantly Mac household, you might appreciate the NetInfo abstraction Darwin offers.

Other than that, you might get better performance out of one of the tried-n-true BSD's due to the lack of overhead taken up by the message-passing microkernel.

Re:hmm

[Mikey-San]

I direct you to, no pun intended, /Applications/Utilities/Directory Access.

Authenticate and check "BSD Configuration Files". Now you can start using the BSD flat files, like /etc/groups.

If I'm missing something, it's because it's early and even though I'm at my desk, I'm still at home in bed.

-/-
Mikey-San