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OpenDarwin 7.2.1 Released

Posted by timothy on from the true-to-their-word dept.

Ed Waldmire writes "I am pleased to annouce to the /. community that the OpenDarwin community has released OpenDarwin 7.2.1. This release corresponds to Mac OS X 10.3.2 and includes many bugfixes and additions. Most notable are ncutil, YUM, and a tulip NIC driver."

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  1. Re:Darwin on x86 -- QUESTIONS by Orick · · Score: 5, Informative


    The problem is that you just get the base OS, which isn't any better than say, FreeBSD, but not too much worse either, but you don't get the GUI, which after all is the difference (from FreeBSD, Linux, whatever) that you'd want from Apple in the first place.

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  2. Re:Can somebody test it under vmware3? by cremes · · Score: 4, Informative

    I haven't verified this myself, but I hear it hangs under vmware because opendarwin requires VESA 2.0 compliant video. Apparently vmware doesn't emulate VESA 2.0 and is not quite fully compliant which causes the framebuffer code to choke.

    I ran into a guy at WWDC who was planning to rewrite the framebuffer code to work with vmware. I've got his card around here somewhere...

    cr

  3. Isn't "Darwin + a good GUI" called Mac OS X? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Isn't "Darwin + a good GUI" called Mac OS X?

  4. Re:Is BSM implemented? by Starfire · · Score: 3, Informative

    BSM auditing is implemented in the Mac OS X 10.3.4 kernel (Darwin 7.4). OpenDarwin 7.2.1 is based on an older version of Mac OS X, and does not have this support

  5. Re:Is BSM implemented? by alangmead · · Score: 3, Informative

    Never mind, for Darwin 7.4 I found bsm-2.10

  6. Re:Darwin on x86 -- QUESTIONS by Guy+Harris · · Score: 3, Informative
    For example, it replaces rc.* scripts (BSD) and run-levels (SysV) with SystemStarter.

    Given that SystemStarter is run by a command in /etc/rc (and that there are rc scripts for various run levels in SV-style inits), you presumably meant "augments rc.* scripts with SystemStarter".

    There's documentation on the developer.apple.com site for the startup process in OS X.

  7. Re:Darwin on x86 -- QUESTIONS by evilviper · · Score: 2, Informative
    How's Darwin on x86?

    Umm... Not something anyone would really want to use much. It might be interesting if you wanted to have maybe OS X front-ends and x86 machines for a cluster. Not sure how that would work, but that's the only real use for it I can think of.

    Does it have any advantages over other BSDs or Linux?

    Nope. It's mostly just FreeBSD, with a different kernel (tcsh and all).

    Is the hardware support lacking?

    Most definately! You can't even get text-mode working unless you have a supported video card, because there is no text-mode, only frame-buffer, and very few video cards are supported in the first place (I tried a dozen, before I found that an old ATI 128 PCI card worked).

    May God have mercy on you, if you want to get your network card working.
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  8. Re:Question by cremes · · Score: 2, Informative

    Yes, OpenDarwin is a usable OS all by itself.

    There is no default GUI other than X and whatever window manager you decide to install. You can use fink or darwinports to install a whole bunch of different ones (AfterStep, BlackBox, twm, etc.).

    The Finder is not included. This isn't MacOS X; just the UNIX bits underneath it.

    cr