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Re: We're we the Apple x86 lab rats???



I can imagine a lot of work was done on both sides. As it stands, the GUI on Darwin is lacking, so obviously the folks at Apple have been hard at work on that. I'm simply excited about it all the same.

On Thursday, June 09, 2005, at 01:32AM, Joel Esler <email@hidden> wrote:

>Here's a funny point..  will the darwin x86 community go away?  Heh...
> Or will we finally take over..  (plays evil music)
>
>On 6/7/05, JK Scheinberg <email@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tuesday, June 07, 2005, at 08:26AM, Curt @ Atari Museum <email@hidden> wrote:
>> 
>> >So....
>> >
>> >    With Apple's announcement that its planning to switch over to Intel
>> >chips, does this mean this whole effort with Darwin was less of a grass
>> >roots effort as hobbyists to move the Mac OS over to x86 via Darwin and
>> >more of Apple just sitting back and letting us be their lab rats while
>> >we found solutions and answers to making Darwin more stability and
>> >useable?    I honestly don't mind, heck if Darwin keeps evolving into a
>> >far more stable and robust commercial version, something with the
>> >potential to chip away at the Windows empire, I'm all for that.   I just
>> >thought it was interesting to see how things have sort of come together
>> >on this path.
>> 
>> I think we did *a little more on x86 than just put out Darwin
>> releases during the last 5 years, heh
>> 
>> But sure, the Darmwin x86 community helped towards this whole effect.
>> 
>> It's weird after so so long to be able to talk about this at all....
>> 
>> JK
>> 
>Joel Esler
>BASE Project Lead
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/secureideas
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References: 
 >Installation on VMWare GSX3.1.0 (From: Erik Ableson <email@hidden>)
 >We're we the Apple x86 lab rats??? (From: "Curt @ Atari Museum" <email@hidden>)
 >Re: We're we the Apple x86 lab rats??? (From: JK Scheinberg <email@hidden>)
 >Re: We're we the Apple x86 lab rats??? (From: Joel Esler <email@hidden>)



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