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Darwin, Fink Updates

Posted by pudge on from the for-the-mac-super-nerd-inside-you dept.

BSDForums writes "The Darwin team is pleased to announce the availability of the Darwin 7.0.1 Installer CD. This is a single Installer CD that will boot and install Darwin on Macintosh computers supported by Mac OS X 10.3, as well as certain x86-based personal computers. The version of Darwin installed by this CD corresponds to the open source core of Mac OS X 10.3. Check out the release notes for more information." dmalloc writes "The Fink team has announced that their binary distribution versioned 0.6.2 is ready for use now. It is a bug-fix release to alleviate issues that came up in 0.6.1. Along with the bug fixes, it introduces an enhanced package manager which is now capable of using the finkmirrors.net-supplied rsync and distfiles mirrors."

3 of 36 comments (clear)

  1. Re:x86?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    OpenDarwin.org maintains a database of x86 hardware that has been successfully used with Darwin.

    http://opendarwin.org/hardware/

  2. Re:????hmmm??? by baka_boy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Have you used a normal BSD installation? Think console/shell at startup (nice full-screen framebuffer-based one, though, at least on PPC), and XWindows for your choice of desktop environments.

    Of course, you've got effectively the NeXTStep/OpenStep/OS X system environment, which means Frameworks, NetInfo, etc., are all in there, along with a Mach-based kernel-land environment, which is fairly opaque at the user level.

  3. Re:I've been using fink 0.6.2 for a few days by dimator · · Score: 4, Informative

    There is a FAQ about this, I don't know if you tried it, or if it applies to 0.6.2, but it worked for me a couple weeks ago.

    --
    python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"