Hi Stefan,
Anybody tried the GNU-Darwin distribution???? Like to ty it out.....
I was under the impression that it was the underlying core of Mac OS 10 and that it was theirs and theirs alone? Yes I'd very much like to try it ... do you know where it can be had? James C. Rocks Equant Archway House Canary Wharf London E14 9SZ Phone: 0207-5226856 Fax: 0207-5126087 Mobile Phone: 07771-767405 http://www.equant.com This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. Thank you.
James.Rocks@equant.com wrote:
Hi Stefan,
Anybody tried the GNU-Darwin distribution???? Like to ty it out.....
I was under the impression that it was the underlying core of Mac OS 10 and that it was theirs and theirs alone?
Yes I'd very much like to try it ... do you know where it can be had?
The frontend (GUI Coca) is from Apple. And the backend is based on BSD (?FreeBSD? not sure). As far as I can remember it can be found on www.sourceforge.net, search for darwin. You can get a beta install iso. On www.macosx.org should be a direct link to the sourceforge location. -- Thanks in advance, Stefan -------------------------------------------------------------- Linux a world without borders, fences, windows and gates..... Titanic98 "Which computer do you want to sink today????"
S. Bulterman wrote:
James.Rocks wrote:
Stefan .... wrote:
Anybody tried the GNU-Darwin distribution???? Like to ty it out.....
I was under the impression that it was the underlying core of Mac OS 10 and that it was theirs and theirs alone?
Yes I'd very much like to try it ... do you know where it can be had?
The frontend (GUI Coca) is from Apple. And the backend is based on BSD (?FreeBSD? not sure). As far as I can remember it can be found on www.sourceforge.net, search for darwin. You can get a beta install iso. On www.macosx.org should be a direct link to the sourceforge location.
I read an article about the Apple iBook in the (Dutch) Linux Magazine. It's often not easy to install Linux on a notebook (for example: to get rid of the installed W.XP and getting your money back, or else, not enough memory to dualboot, and the hassle with winmodems), but the Apple iBook could be the solution. The article depicts Mac OSX as a marriage between Unix and the graphical system that Apple is well-known for. The X in OSX seems to be a wink at X-Windows. The Unix part is a FreeBSD variant named Darwin. Darwin, to quote the article, is a rather complete Unix. The standard shell is tcsh, but you could download bash as well. There's ssh, rsh, telnet, an ssh-daemon, Apache + PHP, the bind name server, Sendmail. The supplied printer daemon is lpd. Both vi and Emacs are installed by default. (Not bad for a Mac eh, to quote the author.) Everything you further need can be downloaded. X11, Gnome or KDE could probably be downloaded, but MacOS seems to do a good job, especially on anti-aliasing, so that has not been tested. If you'd like to try Darwin, it can be downloaded for i386 processors. http://www.opensource.apple.com/developer/ is mentioned as the starting point for the download of Darwin/i386. SH
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