NetBSD's COMPAT_DARWIN Adds XDarwin Support

Dan writes "NetBSD's Emmanual Dreyfus says that COMPAT_DARWIN is now able to run Mac OS X's XDarwin (this is, the X Window server for Darwin). The server is fully functional: display, keyboard and mouse work. He says that running Darwin has no interest in itself, but having it working ensures that NetBSD's IOKit (1) emulation is good enough to be used. Darwin is Apple's Mac OS X core. A fully functional Darwin binary compatibility on NetBSD/powerpc & NetBSD/i386 will imply getting MacOS X libraries to run any Mac OS X program, just like NetBSD is now able to run binaries from Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, and many other OSes."

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Re:some posts here are crazy..

[dublin]

>Um, I use Darwin on an x86 as my primary firewall and work machine. You might be surprised to learn that unix does not necessarily require a goofy gnome foot dropping cores on your desktop every few seconds.

Um, folks use GNOME on Darwin on x86.

And while I don't use GNOME, it's matured a *lot* since the 1.0 days, and is pretty stable, so your jibes aren't exactly accurate.

Gnome has improved, but it's still one of the most unstable user environments I've ever encountered, and not intending to start a flamefest here, easily less than half as stable and reliable as KDE... If only Sun had chosen *anything* else to build their standard desktop upon...