NetBSD's COMPAT_DARWIN Adds XDarwin Support

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 2, 2003 @05:30PM from the agglomeration dept.

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:ah, so THAT's the point! (RTFA): by JamieF · 2003-11-02 18:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Exactly, because Everybody Knows that microkernels are slow.

(Does it count as a troll if you're serious?)

Wait, let me see if I can connect some of them...

Microkernels being slow are the reason Macs are so much slower than PC's! And if Apple would just:
(a) port to x86
(b) drop the microkernel in favor of Linux
(c) allow clones
(d) run Windows apps
(e) use Windows drivers
(f) eliminate their greedy 75% profit margins
... then Macs would take over the world!

Hey, this is fun!