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 23:30:08 +0200
Le 12 août 09 à 22:32, Dave Schroeder a écrit :
On Aug 12, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Éric Lévénez wrote:
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 :-)
Do you disagree?
Not at all. I like Darwin. Since my first NeXTstation. :-)
The UNIX core of Mac OS X is called Darwin. If you dispute the
statement that, "Darwin as the UNIX core of Mac OS X is very much
alive," then that would imply you don't think Mac OS X as an OS is
alive. ;-)
Of course Mac OS X is alive, and well.
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 :-)
Not really, actually. Darwin as a bootable OS from Apple and
OpenDarwin are dead, PureDarwin is alive, and saying it's "dead" is
like saying any Linux distro is "dead" because it doesn't have some
subjective level of activity.
In the bigger picture, yes, I'll concede it's probably fair to say
that any "Darwin" OS (aside from Mac OS X) is dead. But Darwin is
very much alive inside Mac OS X; the fact that it's not available
from Apple as a standalone OS called Darwin was a decision that
certainly impacted other Darwin-as-an-OS efforts, but I'm sure
you'll agree Mac OS X is something of a common UNIX OS -- some might
say by far the most common. ;-)
For me, Darwin OS (the standalone OS from Apple) is a little
disappointment because of it's silence cancellation. There are some
projects to continue the story, but that is not the same thing. Maybe
PureDarwin will be THE Darwin distribution for the future. Maybe a new
release next Xmas :-)
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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