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OpenDarwin.org Releases Darwin With Fixes

Posted by pudge on from the as-a-matter-of-fact-yes-i-would-like-fries-with-that dept.

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?

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  1. Re:But by spearway · · Score: 4, Insightful

    MacOSX support any number of button mouse and scroll wheel out of the box. It is just Apple mouse that has only one button.

  2. Re:Darwin x86 or BSD??? by Halo1 · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Although I agree that Darwin-x86 is only really useful if you want to do Darwin development or use it as a netinfo server, you are wrong about the microkernel piece. It's quite possible that the Darwin kernel is slower than that of the other BSD's, but that won't be due to its message passing microarchitecture. The reason is that the Darwin kernel runs in one address space (even both the Mach and BSD personalities run the same address space).

    Apple didn't just pick up the Mach kernel and used it, they improved it a lot and one of the things they did was to rip out all that message passing stuff, while still retaining the modular design of the kernel. The result is that they more or less get the best of both worlds: a modular design with the speed of a monolithic kernel. Of course they did lose the ability of a true microkernel where the whole kernel doesn't crash if one of its modules does.

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  3. Disappointing by eLoco · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I downloaded this but never installed it because it installs to the /opt directory. I was really hoping for a package that would replace the the perl integrated into OS X (/usr/bin, /Library/Perl, etc.)

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  4. Re:What's the point? by TitanBL · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think you are missing the point. Darwin is not about competing with Linux/FreeBSD/OpenBSD... It is about Apple being able to port OS X to x86 if they wanted. I know there is tons of controversy over whether or not this will happen, but it is a possibility. This would not be hard to do either - as long as they keep Darwin updated. Dell selling systems with either OS X or XP pre-installed? Ha, unlikely, but Darwin is what makes it unlikely instead of impossible.

  5. Re:hmm by andrewski · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Maybe if you weren't a retarded troll you'd realize that Apple has fixed NetInfo so it checks /etc now. Any changes made in /etc (related to stuff that NetInfo knows about anyway) are reflected by NetInfo. I realize that trolling must take up a good portion of your day, but Apple fixed this with 10.2.

    Do I think you are Informative, Interesting, or Funny? NO WAY!

  6. Re:Who cares about Darwin? by MochaMan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does this sound like a good license to you?

    Wow, you do a fantastic job of taking text completely out of context. Try reading and understanding the entire licence next time. Section 2.2 clearly indicates that you may publicly deploy your code so long as the source is also made available.

    Before anyone falls for nonsense like what was posted above, I would encourage you to read the licence yourself.

    The APSL is an open source licence. A major difference between it and a BSD-style licence is that you have to make your changes publicly available if you distribute binaries. But hey, there are lots of licences like that... the GPL for instance.