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An Introduction To And History of Darwin

Posted by timothy on from the evolving dept.

proclus writes "Roberto Donhert of Aqua icon theme fame (screenshot) has written a concise review of Darwin OS. The article covers the origin and evolution of Darwin OS, as well as the various Darwin distributions that are available for PowerPC and x86 architectures. OSnews has the story. The only thing that I would add is the contributions of Torrey Lyons of XonX, who created the XDarwin Xserver that made so much of this possible. BTW, Roberto also has a commentary about the SCO situation running at OSnews."

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  1. First post, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    and the Geocities (ha!) image link is already dead.

    ~~~

  2. Here's a condensed history of Darwin... by andrewski · · Score: 5, Funny

    We had this thing called Openstep for Mach, and we kind of like updated the Openstep API and called it Cocoa. Then, it was already like 1999 and we thought 'Jeez, we'd better put a newer UNIX than 4.3 BSD on there, so FreeBSD was there and we used it. But we used like version 3.0 of FreeBSD, so we had to kind of port what we could of FreeBSD 4.5 to Darwin, and next year we'll probably have FreeBSD 4.8 under the hood. Anyway, the documentation is a mess!

    Love,
    Steve Jobs

    1. Re:Here's a condensed history of Darwin... by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny

      ... Like, when we finally got OS X working, we used it to write a paper, but it was, like, 2002, and everybody was like "BEEPBEEPBEEPBEEPBEEP, I wanna listen to techno!", so we, like, reinvented the walkman and the jukebox in one fell swoop, then brought the music industry into the twenty-first century almost as an afterthought, but people still think we're dying! And it was a really good paper. Oh well, guess I'll just go fly my plane.

  3. omg by ceejayoz · · Score: 4, Funny

    Good God... a Geocities link, on the Slashdot front page?

    Hell, it was probably Slashdotted by the editor looking at it to approve the submission!

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

      ...it was probably Slashdotted by the editor looking at it ...

      You must be new here.

  4. no, thank you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I will just stick to my AdamAndEveOS.

    1. Re:no, thank you by proclus · · Score: 2, Funny
      Wouldn't you like some of this fruit. There are some fine apples, very smart. ;-}

      Regards,
      proclus
      http://www.gnu-darwin.org/

  5. Re:Common Mistake by mrseigen · · Score: 2, Funny

    It can't stand for "Xnu's Not Unix"... Darwin is based off of a chunk of the BSD tree, right?

    What, then, could it stand for?

  6. Re:I swear to Jesus that I am not trolling. by bursch-X · · Score: 2, Funny

    The advantage over HURD ist that it's actually working, I guess.

    --
    There are two rules for success:
    1. Never tell everything you know.
  7. Re:more Yves by Zork+the+Almighty · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here's a few more links :

    The history of :
    hereand
    here

    And introduction to
    here

    Glad I could be of help.

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    In Soviet America the banks rob you!
  8. Re:GNU-Darwin supports PPC by proclus · · Score: 2, Funny

    We are eager to hear constructive criticism about the Distribution, but it is wrong to spread falsehoods. There is nothing mystical or religious about that, is there?

    It is a falsehood to say that GNU-Darwin doesn't support PPC, and our enemies have used this spectacular lie to undermine our credibility. One might speculate about their motives, but no one can deny that it is wrong and immoral. It is sad that so many people have been taken in by the deception.