Shifty Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 I am a huge fan of having Apple's OSX on my Athlon XP box, but up until now there has been a huge debate if apple should port their OS to an X86 platform. Well, i was over at theinquirer.net this morning and found this jem: BSD at core of OS-X debate skim down to the 5th paragraph and click the link it takes you to apples open source page. I know this is old news, but seriously i wouldnt mind setting up another partition and messing with this. From what i can tell, there is limited hardware support which is fine by me. im not looking to kick your asses in couterstrike from this, but just to mess around with some programs and do internet stuff. heres the page to download the iso image Darwin ISO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickedkitten Veteran Posted February 5, 2002 Veteran Share Posted February 5, 2002 Darwin is the core of Mac OS X. All software built for Darwin should be able to run unmodified on Mac OS X. However, because Darwin by itself does not encompass all of the features of Mac OS X, software that depends on higher-level features of Mac OS X (such as the Cocoa and Carbon toolkits) will not run on a stand-alone Darwin system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hulibecker Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 some proper competition for win xp i think will be very good to see (sorry i dont rate linux!) I would be very interested in tryin!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ravexperience Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 Hello and thank you for posting that link but i would like to ask one of you to tell if this XFREE86 thing is to be run on my x86 pc ? ... is it a developing version of MacOS X with it's Aqua interface or what ? ... can i dual boot ? ... after reading all those pages i still DID NOT get it just as simple as i would like ... Is the XFREE86 some kind of developing still in work operating system ?...Thank you ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shifty Posted February 5, 2002 Author Share Posted February 5, 2002 Darwin Q & A Darwin FAQ and if you want to get real technical then thry this place: XonX Project Info Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 Originally posted by ravexperience Hello and thank you for posting that link but i would like to ask one of you to tell if this XFREE86 thing is to be run on my x86 pc ? ... is it a developing version of MacOS X with it's Aqua interface or what ? ... can i dual boot ? ... after reading all those pages i still DID NOT get it just as simple as i would like ... Is the XFREE86 some kind of developing still in work operating system ?...Thank you ... XFREE86 is Xwindows that most *nix OS can run. and i defenatly do not want OSX on PC. and i can bet you will never see officaly ported. OSX is apple's baby and will never give it away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hareball82 Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 WOW.... how secure... lmao: "Darwin currently includes the Apache web server, sendmail, and some other services. By default, there is only one account (root) with no password, as with most UNIX systems. You can create additional accounts using standard UNIX tools." No password for ROOT by default is rather stupid. Kinda defeats the purpose of being based on BSD... ;) :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshalus Veteran Posted February 5, 2002 Veteran Share Posted February 5, 2002 Originally posted by hulibecker some proper competition for win xp i think will be very good to see (sorry i dont rate linux!) I would be very interested in tryin!! Since Microsoft owns a good chunk of Apple, I bet they'd have something to say about that. BTW, In my humble opinion, Linux is good for only one thing. Servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickedkitten Veteran Posted February 5, 2002 Veteran Share Posted February 5, 2002 Originally posted by ravexperience Hello and thank you for posting that link but i would like to ask one of you to tell if this XFREE86 thing is to be run on my x86 pc ? ... is it a developing version of MacOS X with it's Aqua interface or what ? ... can i dual boot ? ... after reading all those pages i still DID NOT get it just as simple as i would like ... Is the XFREE86 some kind of developing still in work operating system ?...Thank you ... you dont get aqua, just the core, no dock, no cocoa apps, no dock, no carbon apps, none of that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dazzla Veteran Posted February 5, 2002 Veteran Share Posted February 5, 2002 Originally posted by Wickedkitten you dont get aqua, just the core, no dock, no cocoa apps, no dock, no carbon apps, none of that. I know. No-one will be able to port OS X apart from Apple. Darwin is not OS X. Full stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickedkitten Veteran Posted February 5, 2002 Veteran Share Posted February 5, 2002 Originally posted by Marshalus Since Microsoft owns a good chunk of Apple, I bet they'd have something to say about that. BTW, In my humble opinion, Linux is good for only one thing. Servers. MS doesnt own a good chunk of apple and even the bit they do own is non voting stock so they have no say in business decisions what so ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshUK Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 So if i download this Darwin and install it, well try to, will it be like a mac but with no apps on it, just the basic OS i dont know much about it, can someone please explain in simple terms Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wickedkitten Veteran Posted February 5, 2002 Veteran Share Posted February 5, 2002 Originally posted by AshUK So if i download this Darwin and install it, well try to, will it be like a mac but with no apps on it, just the basic OS i dont know much about it, can someone please explain in simple terms you dont get the interface Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arpit Posted February 5, 2002 Share Posted February 5, 2002 hmm...as nice and tempting this sounds, i think i'm gonna stick with the themes as opposed to actually running an apple OS...:o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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