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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 Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'm on an iMac with a Memorex cordless optical scroll mouse and get this... 2 buttons!!!

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  2. What's the point? by sahmed · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I fail to understand what the point of the OpenDarwin project is. While some apple opensource projects are cool, like the Darwin streaming server, what exactly is the purpose of the Darwin OS. People use Mac OSX for the interface. Without that, what does Darwin provide that can't be had from Linux, FreeBSD or OpenBSD?

  3. Backporting efforts by Stonent1 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It seems to mention old-world G3 systems as being kinda flaky. Since darwin is open, I wonder if anyone has tried to port it to other old-world pci machines? I personally would love to put it on my older PowerMac 6360 (which doesn't work with XPostFacto)and use fink and other things on it. Sure linux works on it, but it would at least be nice to have this.

  4. OpenDarwin question by tm2b · · Score: 0, Redundant

    OK, this is tangential but relevent.

    Is it possible to take an OpenDarwin install and put the closed source Mac OS X on top of it? I'd love to be able to play with the stuff underneath my Mac OS X install, but don't care to bother if I won't be able to run the pretty Quartz stuff on top of it.

    Thanks...

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    1. Re:OpenDarwin question by tm2b · · Score: 0, Redundant

      Nope. I want to play with modifying the kernel, I already run X11, gimp, etc.

      Oh well.

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