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Interview with Jordan Hubbard About DarwinPorts

Posted by pudge on from the here-a-port-there-a-port-everywhere-a-port-port dept.

Gentu writes "OSNews hosts an interview with Jordan Hubbard (of Apple, OpenDarwin, and FreeBSD fame) where they discuss DarwinPorts and how they compare to Fink. There is also a hint from Jordan that there might be some of the FreeBSD 5.x advancements to be found in Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther) that is coming out, reportedly, this autumn."

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  1. Bummer. by grub · · Score: 5, Funny


    The interviewer didn't ask for Hubbard's reasoning for leaving a dying free OS to join a dying company.

    yes I'm joking

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    1. Re:Bummer. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      I also happen to work for Apple now.

      Finally, an unbiased opinion.

  2. I wonder... by levik · · Score: 5, Funny
    ... if they asked him when that pesky and confusing second mouse button code will be discarded? The pile of bloatware that it is...

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  3. Darwin Ports by buyo-kun · · Score: 1, Funny

    Let us just hope that the Darwin ports don't fall prey to natural selection

    1. Re:Darwin Ports by Spyffe · · Score: 2, Funny

      That would be great... one could have a system by which there are "competing" packages for certain roles (vi vs emacs,etc.)

      Then, whichever package gets chosen more stays. Of course, one would need somehow to fork it so that the forks could compete... but, given OSS politics, that shouldn't be too hard to do. (Lucid Emacs, anyone?)

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  4. GPL'ed birthday presents by siskbc · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm gonna stop handing out gifts at birthday parties and what not, because I don't want them stealing the gift from me.

    Next time I go to a birthday party I'm gonna tell the person I give a present to that it's GPL-licensed. That way, if they actually use the present, they have to go give it away.

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  5. Re:Apple as a software company by Chocolate+Teapot · · Score: 3, Funny

    I got pissed when I found that my extensive VHS collection would not work in my DVD player. WTF? DVD is supposed to be better, right? Those bastards at Samsung are screwing me!

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  6. Re:Mac OSX vs Linux by sporty · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's so not the same.

    command-option-escape is kicking your annoying guest out the house.

    "killall 'Internet Explorer.app'"

    That's stabbing him in the eye first :)

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  7. Re:i386 Ports of OS X by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now all they have to do is implement driver support for every piece of i386 hardware known to man, and it'll be ready to blow Windows out of the market.

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  8. Re:Mac OSX vs Linux by bsharitt · · Score: 4, Funny

    I then moved to a PC and dual booted between RH5/6/7/8 and Win 95/98/NT/2000

    Wow that's a lot of operating systems on one computer.

  9. Re:i386 Ports of OS X by bsharitt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think NASA used these x86 macs to do the video editing when they faked the moon landings.

  10. Re:When...? by mfifer · · Score: 4, Funny

    When MacOS X for Intel/AMD architectures?

    Next Tuesday.

  11. Re:Things we need to see...like real SAMBA. by dalamcd · · Score: 4, Funny
    Also, this might one of the reasons they have not released a x86 port.

    Yes. It is reason #65,934,834,989.

    Reason #1 is: It would be the stupidest thing ever done in this universe or any other.

    dalamcd

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  12. Re:Mac OSX vs Linux by sporty · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dude! You remember the doom interface for killing linux processes? Port THAT!

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  13. Re:Bummer.what a fucking fraud. tsakon smells crap by SeanAhern · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, Mohammad Saeed al-Sahhaf! We were wondering where you had got to...