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OpenDarwin Project Shutting Down

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hard-to-hit-a-moving-target dept.

niabok writes "According to a message sent by Rob Braun to the OpenDarwin mailing lists, the OpenDarwin project will be shutting down, saying that 'OpenDarwin has failed to achieve its goals in 4 years of operation, and moves further from achieving these goals as time goes on.' The project's servers will remain online long enough to allow developers to move their various projects elsewhere."

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  1. Apple has been pissing me off by nukem996 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I work with a lot of users and all they talk about is how great it is but when I mention Linux they respond with "But OS X is Linux" I try to tell them that OS X actually uses the BSD kernel with some parts of open source projects(mostly KDE) but they say "same thing" it really pisses me off(especially as a Linux user). I cannt imagine what the BSD developers/users feel. Anyway I always though the Apple commitment to open source was half-ass/shady. blah I just hope more Apple users smarten up and switch to Linux or a real BSD system.

    1. Re:Apple has been pissing me off by nukem996 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      You forgot the hardware is exspensive as hell and the warrenties suck.

  2. Re:Sad by Mancat · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Gentoo on OS X? Yuck. Please just use pkgsrc for a source-based package management system that is actually maintained by SANE developers.

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  3. Re:case sensitivity by LizardKing · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    There are ways to optimise it, but case insensitive filesystems make many operations more complex. For instance, searching a file heirarchy for files name "foo*". In a case sensitive filesystem I can ignore anything started with the letter "F" without considering any other letters. In a case insensitive but case aware filesystem I can't hash the filenames (expensive in itself and only beneficial if performing whole name matches), or store two versions of the filename - the display variant preserving case, and a second one that adopts a consistent convention of either uppercasing or lowercasing the name for fast operations.

    So from an implementation perspective case aware but case insensitive filesystems chug cock.