Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 11:25:58 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy <vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Bill Mitcheson <turtle@pyramus.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: x86 and OS X. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0104251123290.4422-100000@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET> In-Reply-To: <20010425123958.J78153@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 12:29:00PM -0700, Bill Mitcheson wrote: > > It may be a redundant question, and I have searched the mailing lists > > and found nothing. I was wondering if anyone has sucessfully built OS X > > on top of a Pentium or AMD based system? I know it is based on > > darwin/bsd which should be compatible with x86 type processors. I am > > dying to find out!! > > The source code to OS X is not publically available (nor will it ever > be, since it contains lots of proprietary code as well as code which > Apple considers to be critical to their business model to be kept > proprietary -- the Aqua GUI, etc). > > Darwin is the OS X kernel and UNIX layer which runs beneath OS X -- > this is the "Open Source" one, and it has been ported to Intel. > You'll have better luck asking on a Darwin mailing list since it's a > fairly different beast to FreeBSD, though based on much of the FreeBSD > code. > > Kris Kris is correct. Darwin 1.3.1 has actually been ported to the Intel x86 platform already. The only problem is that you need to be using a motherboard with a Intel chipset since it will only work with Intel IDE controllers so AMD platforms are unuseable at the moment. For more info, see: http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/ Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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