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: Éric Lévénez <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:59:48 +0200
Le 12 août 09 à 19:55, Dave Schroeder a écrit :
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.
Yes, sure :-)
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/
Darwin, OpenDarwin, PureDarwin, FreeDarwin, GNU-Darwin... some are
more dead than other :-)
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.
Ok, thank you.
Éric
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Éric Lévénez -- <http://www.levenez.com/>
Unix is not only an OS, it's a way of life
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