site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On 19 Jul 2005, at 20:58, Justin Walker wrote: On Jul 19, 2005, at 12:48, Gottfried Zojer wrote: Cheers, Graham. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... Just curious if somebody is out there thinking to merge a darwinOS Kernel to a OpenSolaris kernel on x86 system. you might get more enjoyment from poking yourself in the eye with a sharp stick :-} Last I looked, Solaris was System V.4-based, while Darwin is FreeBSD +Mach based. It's all just software of course, but it seems like a lot of work for little reward. Why are you thinking about this? What, in particular, would get "merged"? Do you mean something like shuffling two decks of cards together, or making a marble cake? Justin, while this is only at best marginally related to what I think the OP was saying, I can think of a number of reasons to want to glue Slowlaris and Darwin together: * launchd or asl on Solaris * Solaris TCP/IP for Darwin * massage the solaris LWP API into mach threads on Darwin, or the opposite (perhaps a libslowlaris.dylib to make app porting easier, I don't know, seems like a lot of graft to me [pun intentional]) * Solaris userland for Darwin (although I can only imagine doing that if I were bringing it over to PPC, not Intel because there's already Solaris userland for Solaris on Intel). Of those, none strike me as fantastically interesting. Destroying SysV init and replacing it with launchd is a mildly amusing notion, but I thought (hoped) I'd left the Solaris world behind. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com