Apple Darwin

[PhasterX]

Has anyone used Apple's Darwin? Is there a list of packages included? its hard to find on apple's site. Is Darwin any good?

[MasonS]

If you go here (http://developer.apple.com/darwin/) you'll see what I believe to be the main project page (I found it by running a search on the site; it was the first hit, I think). If you look at the Darwin Project FAQ you'll see this:
Q. What is Darwin's long-term direction?

A. Apple's releases of Darwin will focus primarily on supporting Mac OS X. However, we also expect that other people will use Darwin to customize Mac OS X to meet their specific needs, adding platforms or features that are not a priority for Apple. In addition, we expect Darwin to become the foundation for a complete, stand-alone open source operating system distribution.
There's a list of packages included on the site but it looks to me like it's not really at a very advanced stage yet...not enough to install it like Linux distributions at least. There's several user groups that you might check out, though.

[oubipaws]

are you guys talking about trying to get Darwin to run in linux on x86?

[oubipaws]

I was just going to say that their is a BSD distro trying to port Darwin... not sure of a link sorry

[oubipaws]

:o yeah, sorry about that, completely missed the link :o

[Raoul_Duke]

I had darwin running for a while........seemed to work fine but i couldn't get the xserver running :(

[dkeav]

i tried it, same problem, no X, i did get the usb mouse to work for the x configurator though, just no screens

[oubipaws]

did you try using anything other than XFree?

[dkeav]

kinda have to use whats ported to darwin

[oubipaws]

sorry.. thought it ran off xfree

[dkeav]

it may now, i tested it about three months ago, im sure a lot has changed since then, they seem to have fairly active development