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.