Many years ago, when Steve Jobs left Apple, he founded
NeXT, which produced a system that was a technical marvel but that ultimately failed because almost no one could afford it. Its OS
(NeXTStep) was based on a Unix variant.
When Jobs returned to Apple, he inherited an aging Mac OS that was embarrassingly out of date, long surpassed by Windows in power and capability. So, Jobs sought to combine the best of the NeXT OS with the best of the Mac OS: The Mac OS X was the result; a modern, fully up to date, and very nice operating system.
Although the full OS X only runs on Macs, its core is not owned by Apple: It's based on Open Source software (called ,
Darwin) which has developed in parallel with the Apple (and before that, NeXT) implementations.
The OpenDarwin project gives PC users a chance to explore the guts of the Mac OS. There's even a "
DarWine" project to let you run Windows applications, unmodified, on Darwin.
Fred from the
LangaList states "I wouldn't recommend OpenDarwin as a first choice for a day-to-day working environment (Windows, OS X, or any of the more complete Linux distributions would be better for that), but it is an interesting project, and an impressive display of cross-platform portability."
Download Darmin CD image (.iso)
Apple Darwin Homepage
Darwin Open Source Information
Current release details
Darwin FAQ
NeXT Homepage
NextStep (NeXT OS) Background Information
DarWine Project
LangaList
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Think it will be a interesting show to watch as it unfolds!
Cheers for the heads-up!
A. Darwin is the core of Mac OS X. All software built for Darwin should be able to run unmodified on Mac OS X. However, because Darwin by itself does not encompass all of the features of Mac OS X, software that depends on higher-level features of Mac OS X (such as the Cocoa and Carbon toolkits) will not run on a stand-alone Darwin system.
From the FAQ Hope that helps
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