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Apple Releases Darwin 6.7, 6.8

Posted by pudge on from the makin-copies dept.

PowerMacDaddy writes "In an ongoing effort to keep the FreeBSD core of OS X open source, Apple has updated Darwin to 6.7 and 6.8, which corresponds to the OS X 10.2.7 and 10.2.8 updates, respectively. Source code is available."

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  1. 10.2.8 by nocomment · · Score: 3, Funny

    But, will your ethernet stop working if you use it?

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    1. Re:10.2.8 by wonkamaster · · Score: 5, Funny

      But, will your ethernet stop working if you use it?

      That explains the lack of comments!

    2. Re:10.2.8 by Paradise+Pete · · Score: 2, Funny
      I thought the whole purpose of the darwin project was to get most of their OS developed at no cost. Then they can sell it back to the people who wrote it for them.

      Well if they wrote it for them, then they'd already have it. And have the right to do whatever they wanted with it, including the parts Apple wrote. I don't quite see why this is bad. Perhaps you could elaborate.

  2. 10.2.8 by GoRK · · Score: 3, Funny

    Perhaps they are trying to get the public to fix the 10.2.8 problems that led them to pulling the upgrade :)

  3. In other news... by ZackSchil · · Score: 5, Funny

    Darwin 6.8 sequesters all available computing power and peripherals, sets fire to your house, kills you and you family, and on certain machines disables the ethernet port. Users in Soviet Russia, however, appear to be afflicted with amusing juxtapositions of the aforementioned flaws.

  4. Re:What ticks me off. by StarmanDeluxe · · Score: 4, Funny

    That might be because you have to compile it first, using a compiler that will work with PowerPC code (easiest way, of course, is to compile on a mac). *coughdoltcough*