diego Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 Hey guys.. I tried it running on Virtual PC :blush: but dosen't works... Suggestions ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 Isn't Darwin strictly a windows manager for mac? Or has it been ported over to x86? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony M Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 I did once. No gui type stuff in there. Pure text and command line. I set it up on a spare HD I had so I wouldn't know how to run it on a VMware situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NetRyder Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 Isn't Darwin strictly a windows manager for mac? Or has it been ported over to x86? Darwin is the back-end of OS X, not the windowmanager. It's just a command-line based Unix distro. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diego Posted December 28, 2002 Author Share Posted December 28, 2002 ONLY TEXT? :( damn.. I saw a few pics running X on Darwin.. how is that possible ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasanth Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 ONLY TEXT? :( damn.. I saw a few pics running X on Darwin.. how is that possible ? I think you can compile X11 on darwin, but still you won't get the aqua GUI. Other than doing that you can install a linux distro. :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjordan2001 Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 Isn't Darwin strictly a windows manager for mac? Or has it been ported over to x86? Darwin is the back-end of OS X, not the windowmanager. It's just a command-line based Unix distro. Ah yes, confused Darwin and Aqua. You can tell I'm not a big mac person :laugh: But is Darwin a better back-end than the ones on the current Linux distros or just different? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prasanth Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 Ah yes, confused Darwin and Aqua. You can tell I'm not a big mac person :laugh: But is Darwin a better back-end than the ones on the current Linux distros or just different? Better? No. The x86 port that I used is very unstable. And it has a very limited hardware support. :hmmm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MxxCon Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 Ah yes, confused Darwin and Aqua. You can tell I'm not a big mac person :laugh: But is Darwin a better back-end than the ones on the current Linux distros or just different? Better? No. The x86 port that I used is very unstable. And it has a very limited hardware support. :hmmm: but you can potentialy run "MAC" software :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the evn show Posted December 28, 2002 Share Posted December 28, 2002 Darwin x86 is far too picky to make run under virtual pc. I tried installing it on my PC 'properly' but it did not detect my motherboards IDE/ATA controllers (asus a7v-133 w/raid) so I gave up. I could get it too boot from the cd but that was about it. I did a bit of reading and found that only the piix4 ide controllers work. I installed Darwin on my powerbook not too long ago and it was reasonably useful (as you would expect). I managed to get x11 up and running along with a few of my favorite applications: things worked reasonably well but it really doesn't hold a candle to a full fledged ppc-linux install. I can only imagine how terrible it would be on a PC: hardware support is almost non-existant and most source code will require at least some tweaking to get compiled. it looks like darwin x86 is more of a "proof of concept" when you compare it to *bsd and linux. For you PC folk who have dreams of getting "mac" software running on darwin - think again. Darwin is the lowest level of OS X upon which all of the "good" stuff is layered; think of it as Linux without any applications installed - no x11, no enlightenment, no qt, no gtk, no nothing. Apple has made this part of os x free and available to the world but kept the important stuff closed: - Cocoa and Carbon - the OS X programming APIs - similar in function to what QT and GTK+ provide - Core Graphics (including QE) - The part of OS X responsible for the wonderful graphics - This would be somewhat similar to the xserver - Aqua - Basicly the windowmanager for os x - if core graphics was xfree86 then aqua is enlightenment. There are plenty of other core technologies missing so it's not very likely that anyone will get (for example) office x to run under darwin on x86 or ppc architectures. This is by apple's design: who would buy a $6000 apple notebook when a $1500 PC notebook could run the same software...heck, who would pay $100 for OS X when Darwin could do the same thing for free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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