[Tfug] x on an imac

[Anthony Hess]

Darwin is, as the web site says, the underlying layer of Mac OS X.  It
does not include Quartz, Carbon, Cocoa, and some of the system frameworks.
It definitely doesnt have Quicktime, iLife, Safari, or any of the other
Apple bundled software. The hardware support for any New World Mac,
obviously, will tend to be there - but its still different than FreeBSD or
Linux by a long shot.  From a test perspective Id try it, but I dont see
much of a compelling reason to run it in production (unless you want to
bone up on your Mac expertise or already have a lot of OS X boxes).

If nobody can help you getting Gentoo on there, I just say try a different
distro and call it a day.  On the other hand, someone must know the answer
...

--
Anthony Hess
Support Systems Analyst, Sr.
CoEM Computer Services

> > And as far as Darwin, well, the primary reason for
> > our wanting an X-window
> > based system is lightweightness. I don't know how
> > much it differs from the
> > commercial OSX, but I don't want that much eye
> > candy. I also want to use
> > OpenOffice and GAIM on these machines, and don't
> > know how well their
> > server is integrated into things these days (I've
> > not played with it for a
> > few months - heard there's been an update since
> > then).
> >
>
> Actually, Darwin doesn't come with all that topheavy
> GUI included in OS-X. It's some X11 app (I think it's
> just XFree86.) Believe it or not, the expensive part
> of OS-X is that humungus GUI. Under the covers it's
> just FreeBSD. The documentation on the project seems
> to be pretty terrible; however.