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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.

    --
    Kirby Reviews

  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. 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

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

    Never mind, for Darwin 7.4 I found bsm-2.10

  5. 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.