Apple updates Darwin, releases OpenPlay

A reader writes "Apple has made available a binary release of Darwin on its public source server. They also released the rest of the Darwin source code which should finally let it compile out of the box. On top of that Apple has published a third Open Source project dubbed OpenPlay. OpenPlay is a network abstraction layer designed to simplify the task of creating programs which communicate across multiple computers. "

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Someone has installed it. Me.

[MrKai]

I grabbed it (the binary distrib) and installed it last night.

It is in fact BS4.4 over Mach3, wth Apple/NeXT's supplemental directory structure.

There was no GUI included...it runs in/as a shell.

If you've ever used NeXT/Openstep (or MacOS X 10) it will all look familiar to you.

Apparently, *this* core, Darwin 0.2, and not the one that MacOS X Server is currently running on top of, is what Mac OS X ("Client"), which was released as a Developer Preview yesterday at WWDC, is based on.

Apple has moved to egcs as well.

So, for all those that think Apple is full of Poopy-Doo Doo's, it's right there in front of ya'.

Apple is and will be building it's libraries (MacOS API, Java and Openstep/CoCo) on top of what's on that website...just like they said.

So as much as some of us like to rag on Apple, it appears to be w/o merit this time...they are doing what they said they would. And I don't see anyone else with a commercial OS even releasing a teensy bit of what makes it tick...

The kernel should be able to be brought up on a PC, but I need to have a closer look at whether or not they run the shell in character mode on a PC), or on a bitmapped screen like in the old Openstep. If it's on a bitmapped screen, there might be driver issues...

I suppose I could just ask them...Wilfredo Sanchez spends a lot of time on the dev list...

-K