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."

Comments

*BSD is dying

[Anonymous Coward]

You don't keed to be Kreskin to look into FreeBSD's future. Even a child knows that FreeBSD is dying. All major marketing surveys show that FreeBSD has steadily declined in market share. FreeBSD is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim.

Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, FreeBSD went out of business and was taken over by BSDI who sell another troubled OS. Now BSDI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

The numbers continue to decline for *BSD but FreeBSD may be hurting the most. Look at the numbers. The loss of user base for FreeBSD continues in a head spinning downward spiral. In truth, for all practical purposes FreeBSD is already dead. It is a dead man walking. It's a fact: FreeBSD is dying.

Re:Plain English

[Sebby]

A fully functional Darwin binary compatibility on NetBSD/powerpc & NetBSD/i386 will imply getting MacOS X libraries to run any Mac OS X program

Actually, this part from the story confuses me; do they mean that the i386 version could run OSX libraries, unmodified? Or would this be emulation (which I would not consider 'binary compatibility' in such a case)?

Are you folks functionially literate?

[maggard]

Fer chrissakes you don't even have to read the linked article, the blurb itself says why the project was undertaken.

And no, I'm not gonna quote it. It's the entire second half of the blurb at the top of this subject. If you're not able to scroll up and spell out the words for yourself there's no helping you, the sooner you forget to breathe and stop annoying the rest of us the better.

Why is this being done? Is it so that ...? Can I run blah then? What about Aqua? So I can now put it on my Dell? What's an IOkit?

The next time anyone notes how the quality of postings on /. has gone down you buffoons should slink out of the thread, some of you are just too pathetic for words.