JP Toto on Tue, 29 Oct 2002 12:40:04 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] Darwin Question

Yeah, ironically I thought that story was especially timely. I did read it when it was out yesterday and spent some time persusing known issues w/ Darwin. I read alot of the slashdot comments too. Sounds like it's a big pain to get working if you don't have pretty specific hardware. I'll probably just mess w/ BSD some more since I will effectively get the same experience. By that I don't mean to generalize.... Im sure Gabe can expound on this topic at length :-)

Cheers, - JP

Bill Jonas wrote: 
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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JP Toto
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