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The GNU-Darwin World

Posted by Hemos on from the making-it-all-come-together dept.

proclus writes "The GNU-Darwin Distribution was founded to leverage the open source development dynamic and build the infrastructure for scientific computing on a new platform. Now GNU-Darwin is a major free software project, and the infrastructure, such as parallel computing and molecular graphics software is available to everyone via the web and on digital media discs. Check it out. Also, Apple has written up a story about it."

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  1. Re:I gave up on the Mac by Senjaz · · Score: 5, Informative

    If Apple hadn't stopped their cloning experiments which where at the time killing their own hardware sales then it's questionable whether Apple would still be here.

    And we then we wouldn't have had Mac OS X. No Mac OS X, no darwin.

    You have a valid point for most geeks, what's the point of using it over Linux or BSD.

    One thing I will point out though is that it is a real boon having that entire layer of the OS open if your job is writing things like kext's and device drivers.

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