Re: Open Source Release for Mac OS X 10.5.8
Re: Open Source Release for Mac OS X 10.5.8
- Subject: Re: Open Source Release for Mac OS X 10.5.8
- From: Dave Schroeder <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:55:22 -0500
Darwin as a bootable OS *from Apple* is dead, and has been for quite
some time. OpenDarwin took up the torch for some time, but is also no
more.
Darwin as the UNIX core of Mac OS X is very much alive.
Darwin as a collection of open source projects and software components
included in Mac OS X is very much alive; some with considerable
community participation and adoption; see e.g. http://www.macosforge.org
Darwin as a bootable OS from the community is as alive as the
community can make it; see e.g. http://www.puredarwin.org/
You won't get an Apple statement saying "Darwin is dead", because
Darwin means so many things. You also (probably) won't get an Apple
statement saying "Darwin OS is dead". And since "Darwin" is the core
of Mac OS X, and Mac OS X (as of 10.5.x) is one of few OSes actually
officially able to be labeled "UNIX", you may still want to reference
Darwin with respect to your descriptions for Mac OS X.
- Dave
On Aug 12, 2009, at 12:47 PM, Éric Lévénez wrote:
Is Darwin dead ?
At the beginning of Darwin project, the announcement was about
Darwin OS, with Darwin release number. The last one was, I think,
Darwin 9.7. It seems to me that the Darwin operating system is
fading out. For Mac OS X 10.5.8, no word about Darwin 9.8.
My question is not about the open source projects under the Darwin
name, but only about Darwin as a standalone operating system.
I have a little history of Unix systems on my web site, and I am
thinking about not talking about Darwin OS for the future releases
(in particular for Mac OS X 10.6). I only want to have Apple
feedback on that little question :-)
Thank you.
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