Re: [PLUG] Darwin Question

[Bill Jonas <bill@billjonas.com>]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 05:15:48PM -0500, JP Toto wrote:
> I'de say that about covers it :-) Thanks, Bill!!

You're welcome.

Interestingly enough, there was a Slashdot story just yesterday about
the latest release of Darwin.  It was pointed out by many commenters
that hardware support is extremely limited.

<http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/6.0/install.x86.txt>:
    IDE:
            Only the PIIX4 IDE controllers have been found to work.
            Attached devices must be UDMA/33 compatible or better.
    [...]
    Known to not be supported:
            All AMD and VIA based systems.

<http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/6.0/release-notes-6.0.2.txt>:
    Known Issues
    ----------------
    [...]
    * SCSI CD-ROM drives are not supported


    x86 Known Issues
    ----------------
    * IDE drives may not work on x86.  Try it, if it doesn't work, it's a 
            known problem.

The Slashdot story is located at
<http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/28/2153249>.  You might
not be able to run it after all.

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Bill Jonas    *    bill@billjonas.com    *    http://www.billjonas.com/
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