Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Apr 6, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
I'll just note that Darwin is essentially dead at this point. Apple
essentially killed it a while back, around the time they announced
the move to Intel (Darwin was always more active on x86 than it was
on PPC).
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Darwin continues to be a viable
entity, and the Open Source releases continue to be updated in the web
repository with all the latest additions.
Apple stopped accepting 3rd party patches to the kernel, which has
essentially killed off the 3rd party developer community for Darwin.
Since this was also the community that provided most of the necessary
userspace for Darwin to be a viable OS, Darwin is essentially dead.
My point was that graywolf's assertion that Mac OS X amounts to nothing
more than Apple's adoption of BSD is incorrect/incomplete, overly
simplistic.
And that was correct.
Godfrey
-Adam
