GNU-Darwin has gotten support for AMD’s Opteron processors. “Mac OS X users are welcome to give free software a try now. I finally got a chance to try GNU-Darwin-1.1 on an Opteron machine with Darwin-7.2. Testing with glxgears confirms that the MesaGL is performing about twice as fast as on a comparable 32-bit CPU, although some other tasks are clearly not yet optimized. The machines are otherwise roughly identical. Here is a screenshot.”
“Mac OS X users are welcome to give free software a try now.”
There are (legal) Mac OS X users using Opteron now? I thought Macs were Intel-only, and already supported by Darwin. On the other hand, this may help with those patching Mac OS X to run on non-Macs (whether or not this is legal on depends where you live and how much you spend on your lawyers).
Read: MacOSX users are welcome to try GNU/Darwin, not MacOSX, on their Opterons.
“Mac OS X users are welcome to give free software a try now.”
What an odd thing to say… ,:|
Anyway, lets hope that either Woodcrest/Conroe live up to the hype or Apple reconsiders its exclusive deal with Intel in the future.
Edited 2006-05-27 23:57
Cool.
i did not notice SSE3 i thought dual-core opterons already had SSE3 added to them.
> Read: MacOSX users are welcome to try GNU/Darwin, not MacOSX, on their Opterons.
This still doesn’t make sense. GNU/Darwin is free for anyone, not just OS X users.
Can someone tell me where to download GNU-Darwin? The referenced link doesn’t work.
http://gulus.usherbrooke.ca/pub/distro/gnu-darwin/
Maybe is worth an front page story on osnews or digg
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=544490