Gnu-darwin has released its distribution in the form of a x86 binary distribution. People with the supported hardware can now use lots of software without having to recompile it to use it.
Gnu-Darwin for x86
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What benefits comes with Gnu-Darwin in comparison to FreeBSD?
IIRC Darwin is based on the FreeBSD 3.x kernel series, while latest FBSD is 4.4 and 5.x current.
On Mac you can at least run Aqua on Darwin, but on x86?? Can it even run linux apps like FBSD does?
Your questions have been http://www.macslash.com/comments.pl?sid=01/11/19/1535235&threshold=… .
Man whats it going to take to make these guys see that ease of installation will promote bazillions of reasons to use the stuff in the first place. I’d gladly use Darwin if it supported AMD and non-intel IDE adapters.
Honestly, my knowledge of FreeBSD is indirect at best. GNU-Darwin still needs a FreeBSD machine for baseline comparisons. Given those caveats….
The advantages of Darwin are a Mach real-time kernel and supurb interoperabilityh with Mac OS. If that doesn’t excite you, then may Darwin is not for you.
Some people cite NetInfo as an advantage, but that is mostly a pain to learn for most Unix admins, who are used to the conventional Unix administration tools. (in my experience).
Regards,
proclus
http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
BTW, I probably won’t be revisiting this thread, so please email me, [email protected]
Pretty useful. I don’t have a compatible x86 box right now, but I remember having a hard time when I tried to compile XFree86 on Darwin/x86.
It is called GNU/Gnu-Darwin, please give me some credit atleast!
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