From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 10 14:38:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net (mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net [204.127.131.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09CD037BA2F for ; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 14:37:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@thecoven.dynip.com) Received: from thecoven.dynip.com ([12.70.32.235]) by mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20000410213727.XGJX15559.mtiwmhc25.worldnet.att.net@thecoven.dynip.com>; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 21:37:27 +0000 Received: from thecoven.dynip.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thecoven.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AA2960E61; Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:37:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 17:37:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Eric Jones Reply-To: fpicard@mindless.com Subject: Re: Darwin To: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <00040618101400.00701@gunnar.my.domain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Message-Id: <20000410213705.8AA2960E61@thecoven.dynip.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 6 Apr, Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold spewed forth the following trash: > Having just come back from Networld in LA, I can say the Apple people are very > technically competent. > > They have compiled Darwin under FreeBSD on an Intel machine, and it worked. > > They also told me you can download and compile it yourself, something I haven't > verified, but will be checking out! > > > On Thu, 06 Apr 2000, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >> > From: Jose Kuhn >> > >> > How difficult is it to Port some of the Free BSD Apps to Apple's >> > Darwin? >> >> I'd guess it depends on the applications you want to port, and on the >> API compatibility of Darwin and BSD Unices. What is it exactly that you >> want to port? >> >> - Giorgos Keramidas. From what I can see from looking through the sources, it should compile without too much trouble on an Intel machine. Whether it can talk to intel devices yet is another thing. I'll be sticking my head under the hood this weekend when I get more time to play around with the source. FYI: Darwin 1.0 source can be found at http://www.publicsource.apple.com There is a link for applying for CVS access. I got my password in less than a day. -- Eric Jones | I feel so high - incredibly high fpicard@mindless.com | Floating above the stars - kissing the sky To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message