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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: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: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)

  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:Question by mtalbot · · Score: 5, Informative

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