What does Darwin hope to accomplish? It also seems that the development for Darwin is seperate for OpenDarwin. Are there any open source developers for Darwin? What about the OpenDarwin people, does Apple let them contribute to Darwin development (the one bundled with OS X)?
Doesn't seem like it. Apple released the source AFTER 7.0 was finished. Which means the open source community wasn't in on its final development. Why would dedicated open source programmers of systems like Linux or *BSD contribute to this semi-open source system????
And here's an interesting line from the OpenDarwin x86 release notes. I wonder why anyone would bother to develop Darwin for Intel machines.
Known Issues ============
* IDE drives may not work on x86. Try it, if it doesn't work, it's a known problem.
According to http://www.sco.com/scosource/ their licensing program will only apply to Linux kernels 2.4 and above? So does this mean those running older versions of Linux would be spared the trouble? Does anyone know what this code is, exactly? Why doesn't some just create a script to patch the kernel with a new code?
You wanna hear something crappy? My university in Australia gives us only 100MB worth of external traffic PER SEMESTER, PER STUDENT. This is if we access non-uni sites.
I come from a country where English isn't the first language and I've noticed that on countries like the US, the gap between cool and uncool, nerd and popular is always emphasized. Countless American movies depict this, bad cool boy kicks the ass of smart underdog.
Let me just say that my high school life in my home country has been very enjoyable. To give you an idea I'm the first and so far the only full time student who has ever become a full time UNIX systems administrator in my campus. I haven't been given the "loser" treatment. In fact, I had a very active social life with what you would call "popular" students...basketball and soccer players. During my junior prom I was even invited by my crush to be her date!
The "nerds are losers" mentality is just applicable to the US.
Actually, computers differ from VCRs because software is often copied exactly identical to the original, without degradation on its quality. If you copy a VCR which was copied from a copy, then it would show a great deal of distortion from the original. Whereas with software, it doesn't matter if the file was copied 500 times before you copied it, it would be completely identical to the original.
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What does Darwin hope to accomplish? It also seems that the development for Darwin is seperate for OpenDarwin. Are there any open source developers for Darwin? What about the OpenDarwin people, does Apple let them contribute to Darwin development (the one bundled with OS X)?
Doesn't seem like it. Apple released the source AFTER 7.0 was finished. Which means the open source community wasn't in on its final development. Why would dedicated open source programmers of systems like Linux or *BSD contribute to this semi-open source system????
And here's an interesting line from the OpenDarwin x86 release notes. I wonder why anyone would bother to develop Darwin for Intel machines.
Known Issues
============
* IDE drives may not work on x86. Try it, if it doesn't work, it's a known problem.
Haha.
no, you are
This is one of the reasons why I chose Mac OS X and Linux.
If they released an upgrade, probably more than half of those willing to get Panther will qualify for an upgrade.
I personally think it's too expensive for an upgrade. I hope Apple doesn't turn out to be another Microsoft.
Thank God I don't live in the United States.
According to http://www.sco.com/scosource/ their licensing program will only apply to Linux kernels 2.4 and above? So does this mean those running older versions of Linux would be spared the trouble? Does anyone know what this code is, exactly? Why doesn't some just create a script to patch the kernel with a new code?
You wanna hear something crappy? My university in Australia gives us only 100MB worth of external traffic PER SEMESTER, PER STUDENT. This is if we access non-uni sites.
I come from a country where English isn't the first language and I've noticed that on countries like the US, the gap between cool and uncool, nerd and popular is always emphasized. Countless American movies depict this, bad cool boy kicks the ass of smart underdog.
Let me just say that my high school life in my home country has been very enjoyable. To give you an idea I'm the first and so far the only full time student who has ever become a full time UNIX systems administrator in my campus. I haven't been given the "loser" treatment. In fact, I had a very active social life with what you would call "popular" students...basketball and soccer players. During my junior prom I was even invited by my crush to be her date!
The "nerds are losers" mentality is just applicable to the US.
I'm all for Linux but I'd have to say this is just a marketing strategy. Motorola is desperate.
Actually, computers differ from VCRs because software is often copied exactly identical to the original, without degradation on its quality. If you copy a VCR which was copied from a copy, then it would show a great deal of distortion from the original. Whereas with software, it doesn't matter if the file was copied 500 times before you copied it, it would be completely identical to the original.