I doubt that this will affect netatalk. OS X is based on the bsd kernel
and OS as a whole. It is simply the MacOS GUI on top of it. Claiming
that the system is to be launched as mostly open source was basically a
given.
What does it offer?
Sendmail, Apache, BSD Unix... all open source already.
The only part that they are not releasing for the most part is the
original Mac GUI, which was not open source to begin with.
I love the idea of Unix with a Mac interface, but the Darwin announcement
means very little in the netatalk world.
If anything, netatalk will be absorbed into the new OS X since it can
compile on the BSD system, and that is what I may do if I has such a
system.
Open source has just proven itself to be better.
I just can't wait to see how well OS X really performs. I want it!
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Jonathan Michael Hawkins wrote:
> Hello--
>
> I'm wondering what affect, if any, Darwin will have on netatalk?
> Apparently *all* of the underlying code below the GUI level in MacOSX is
> being released (well, is released. <http://www.publicsource.apple.com>
> ).
>
> Jonathan
>
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