PureDarwin?
Chuck Remes
cremes.devlist at mac.com
Mon Apr 30 04:49:05 PDT 2007
Looking into it a bit deeper on my own, I see that puredarwin.org is
pure vaporware. I thought I had missed out on an announcement but I
now see that there is nothing there yet.
Regardless, I wish them luck.
cr
On Apr 29, 2007, at 9:26 PM, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> I think all we know by the evidence so far is that puredarwin.org
> is a web site. I've spoken to the people behind it and said I'd
> check back with them in a year since, by all indications, it
> appears to me that they are at least a year off from becoming
> anything substantially more than a web site. There's way more work
> involved than even they know, I think, and 12 months should be
> enough time for them to either make substantial progress in working
> through all the issues or give up and decide to do other things.
>
> In the meantime, of course, there is a web site. :-)
>
> - Jordan
>
> On Apr 29, 2007, at 6:40 PM, Randall Wood wrote:
>
>> It looks to me like puredarwin.org is something like what
>> opendarwin.org wanted to have: a fully functional darwin-based
>> desktop/server OS other than Mac OS X.
>>
>> On 29 Apr 2007, at 20:38, cremes.devlist at mac.com wrote:
>>
>>> Anyone know anything about PureDarwin [1]? I assume if it
>>> actually gets some traction that there will be MacPorts support
>>> for it.
>>
>> Probably not. We tried supporting darwin and opendarwin
>> installations, but the developers and port maintainers generally
>> were unable to test on those systems, so support got dropped.
>>
>>>
>>> ??
>>>
>>> [1] http://puredarwin.org/
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>>
>> Randall Wood
>> rhwood at mac.com
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>>
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>> minutes. All the
>> rest is just philosophy."
>>
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