[Tfug] Hate to say I told you so..

[keith smith]

So doesn't that make it just another disro?  Like saying run Debian or run Fedora?

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Keith Smith




--- On Tue, 2/3/09, Eric Gearhart <eric at nixwizard.net> wrote:
From: Eric Gearhart <eric at nixwizard.net>
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Hate to say I told you so..
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 3, 2009, 10:57 AM

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Andrew Ayre <andy at britishideas.com>
wrote:
> This is from wikipedia:
>
> "Darwin does not include many of the defining elements of Mac OS X,
such as
> the Carbon and Cocoa APIs or the Quartz Compositor and Aqua user
interface,
> and thus cannot run Mac applications. It does, however, support a number
of
> lesser known features of Mac OS X, such as mDNSResponder, which is the
> multicast DNS responder and a core component of the Bonjour networking
> technology, and launchd, an advanced service management framework."
>
> Is that correct? Sounds a bit limited if you cannot run Mac
applications...
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)
>
> Andy

Oh haha yes sorry... didn't realize he was referring to only Darwin.
Yes, Darwin is not OSX by any means... Darwin is the FreeBSD userland
utilites and the XNU kernel...

So no, if you install just Darwin you will not have all the GUI
aspects of OS X, such as the Finder, Carbon, Aqua, etc. You'll have
what amounts to a Unix-like box running a Mach kernel, and you could
possibly get X Windows running on it; that's about it

--
Eric
http://nixwizard.net

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