| Bill Jonas on Mon, 28 Oct 2002 16:50:06 -0500 |
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On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 04:10:15PM -0500, JP Toto wrote: > I've been doing some poking around Apple's site but I guess I haven't > really had my questions answered so I'll toss a softball out for you > guys. Does Darwin come with any of the features that full blown OS X > Server comes with? Is it just the underlying BSD-like OS stuff? <http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/darwin/faq.html>: Q. What is Darwin? A. Darwin is a version of the BSD UNIX operating system that offers advanced networking, services such as the Apache web server, and support for both Macintosh and UNIX file systems. It was originally released in March 1999. Darwin currently runs on PowerPC-based Macintosh computers, and is being ported to Intel processor-based computers and compatible systems by the Darwin community. Q. How does Darwin relate to Mac OS X? A. 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. > Does it come with any kind of X system or GUI or anything? <http://sourceforge.net/projects/xonx> <http://mrcla.com/XonX/>: XFree86, a free implementation of the X Window System, has been ported to Darwin and Mac OS X. > Also... does it run on x86? <http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/6.0/release.html>: Darwin 6.0.2 x86-compatible Darwin 6.0.2 is available as a bootable ISO CD image. See the installation notes prior to installation. * x86 ISO image (315 MB) md5 checksum: d4e9a94c48d900736fa9f77d42707d50 HTH. -- Bill Jonas * bill@billjonas.com * http://www.billjonas.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin Attachment:
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