Darwin 7.0 Released 30
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Trollaxor writes "The source code to Darwin 7.0, corresponding to the lower levels of Panther, is free for download less than 24 hours after the new Mac OS X v10.3 release! Check out the Darwin FAQ and the Darwin Q & A to get acquainted with this Open Source BSD operating system."
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Heh Heeeh heheehhheehee (Score:1, Troll)
ObOntarget: So, is there any interesting tidbits in Darwin that's not in Linux? Or is it bragging rights of Apple?
Re:Heh Heeeh heheehhheehee (Score:2, Informative)
(sort of
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Re:Heh Heeeh heheehhheehee (Score:5, Informative)
But more importantly, Darwin gives everyone access to the low level internals of OS X. I've seen several bug fixes come from Darwin coders and incorporated back to the main codestream. For example, in the early days of OS X, the SCSI code was broken so ElGato rewrote the SCSI kext and released it for free, giving guys like ME with legacy SCSI hardware a solution, until Apple could incorporate that fix into the next release. This may sound like it's just a way for Apple to capitalize on the work of the Open Source coders, but it's significant in that you don't have to wait for Apple to fix bugs. And isn't that supposed to be one of the big advantages of OSS?
Re:Heh Heeeh heheehhheehee (Score:1, Flamebait)
Right.
Why should anyone care?
Re:Heh Heeeh heheehhheehee (Score:3, Informative)
DSS also supports nonQT formats like MP3 and MP4, and can run on QT for Java and other nonproprietary clients. You should only care if:
1. You're in the business of producing and transmitting media.
2. You're a Linux bigot that is jealous you don't have this capability.
Re:Heh Heeeh heheehhheehee (Score:2)
I was merely pointing out the contradiction in the parent's statement.
Let me highlight the contradictory statements:
Sure, there's lots of goodies in Darwin that aren't in Linux. The most significant is Darwin Streaming Server, a/k/a QuickTime Streaming Server, which Apple has generously given back to the Open Source community. It's been ported to RedHat and other platforms since the first release of the source.
I basically said the following:
Ok, so there's this propriet
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QTSS is not part of any Linux distro. At this time, QTSS 4.52 is not available for any platform but Darwin and MacOS X. Older versions are not part of any distro. Therefore, it is not "in Linux."
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Releases: Streaming Server 4.1.3 [apple.com]
* Mac OS X, v10.1.3 and later (server and proxy)
* Red Hat Linux 7.x (server and proxy)
* Solaris 8 (server and proxy)
* Windows NT Server/Windows 2000 Server (server)
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Re:Who do GNU/Darwin think they are? (Score:4, Insightful)
Job's not being stupid and needing to fix all the red left from before, killed the clones that sucked and bought out the ones that where great so he could have those people on staff for him (which is why Apple has all the tech support documents for Power Computing still on their servers in support). It was that along with killing the projects sucking away money without showing anything for it (newton, which I still love and still use my eMate, and the old Apple server department, the ones that used IBM Unix in them) and the releace of the G3/iMac that saved the company and allowed him to do the big change, which was recoding the old NeXt OS, what we now know as OSX.
Re:Who do GNU/Darwin think they are? (Score:1)
By screwing over all of its business partners (IBM, Sybase, etc.) and abusing its monopoly.
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