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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. Re:Question by geggibus · · Score: 5, Informative

    It uses lookupd, which uses a set of software "agents" to get informations. There are agents for NetInfo, NIS, DNS, the files in /etc (Flatfiles), LDAP and internal cache agent.

    NetInfo is usually the first place to look for things(after the cache..)

    (if i understand this correctly)

  2. Already Upgraded by billatq · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've already checked out the source and updated to the new kernel and it seems to run fine (I wanted to apply the nosleep patch on the KisMac web page so that I can run it with the lid closed for short periods of time). Of course, I have an iBook, so I'm probably not affected by the ethernet problem screwing up some of the other models. I'm happy that nothing like Cisco VPN magically became broken in this release also.

  3. Re:Question by mtalbot · · Score: 5, Informative

    BSD Ports for Mac OS X (and Darwin) can be found here: http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/darwinports/

  4. re: not exactly news by dwightk · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't think there is anything wrong with the kernel... I did the update, and everything works fine... it sounds like some kernel extensions were messed up...

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    Like anyone can even know that