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Subject: Re: Darwin Source code released - anything for FreeBSD / ppc?
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Hi Torfinn,

> According to OSnews[1] apple has released the source code for Darwin 9
> [2]. Is there anything in it for FreeBSD? For example (I haven't looked
> very closely at this thing), if there is source code for drivers etc,
> could that be studied in order to improve FreeBSD drivers for Apple
> PPC machines?

  Heaps. I've used Darwin source as a reference in the past (as 
Linux/NetBSD/OpenBSD certainly have :). The license precludes using 
anything directly though.

later,

Peter.