Darwin- Has anyone tried it on a *86?

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Darwin- Has anyone tried it on a *86?

TobyDallan

9:39 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Hey everyone. I love Mac OS X...was wondering if anyone has tried Darwin on a *86. If so, please let me know what proggies you got for it and any screen shots if possible.

TYIA,
./Toby

bakedjake

9:46 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Yeah, it works fine. Looks strangely like FreeBSD. ;-)

Program support is roughly the same. Note - You're not getting all of MacOS with darwin, just the underlying core. So don't even think that pretty interface is free. :)

TobyDallan

9:49 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Any possible links to a Screenshot page fer me? :-)

Thanks :)

bakedjake

9:52 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

I don't run it anymore - no point, really. I'm sure you could google for some, though.

It looks the same as any other desktop UNIX, though. Standard X11, standard KDE/Gnome/whatever, etc.

TobyDallan

9:52 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

OHH...never mind then. Aqua is left for the mac eh?

bakedjake

9:53 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Right.

TobyDallan

9:55 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

BTW: Just for your info, opendarwin.org :)

martin

9:57 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

I have it on my old hard disk but it's an old version (equivalent to Mac OS X 10.1), I haven't played much with it. It uses rpms which is kinda annoying.

TobyDallan

9:58 pm on Dec 17, 2003 (gmt 0)

Yes, RPMs are annoying, but it's the only thing i'm used to lol :0

martin

8:37 am on Dec 18, 2003 (gmt 0)

I think I read somewhere on Open Darwin that they use debs, I don't know if that's going to be incorporated in Apple Darwin too but it'd be cool.