On Apr 6, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
I'll just note that Darwin is essentially dead at this point.
Apple essentially killed it a while back, around the time they
announced the move to Intel (Darwin was always more active on
x86 than it was on PPC).
I'm not sure what you mean by that. Darwin continues to be a
viable entity, and the Open Source releases continue to be
updated in the web repository with all the latest additions.
Apple stopped accepting 3rd party patches to the kernel, which has
essentially killed off the 3rd party developer community for
Darwin. Since this was also the community that provided most of the
necessary userspace for Darwin to be a viable OS, Darwin is
essentially dead.
That's interesting. I'll have to call up my old buddy in that group
and see if he can tell me what's happening there now.
Godfrey
