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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. It's laughable by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The name Darwin implies some kind of evolution from nothingness into somethingness, but if you look at the software it is clear that random events didn't bring these bits into being. Rather a carefully crafted system was created by a team of creators.

    I don't want to get into a religious flame war debunking the Theory of Evolution in light of the Natural Law of Intelligent Design, but it seems to me that Apple could have used a slightly more appropriate codename for this project.

  2. Re:omg by coltrane69 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    GPL: Free as in Herpes That is pretty funny. What do you have against the GPL? Yeah, first Slashdot post for me.

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