Well allmost it's the core and here is what i read from Fred Langa Langalist 2004-02-23 which can be read full at
http://www.langa.com/newsletters/2004/2004-03-01.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
3) Apple's Core OS On Your PC, For Free
Frequent contributor CptSiskoX sends this along:
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/ http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/images/darwin-701.iso.gz (ISO of Darwin 7.01 for x86/PowerPC - which is basically MacOS 10.2)
more stuff:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/ also see:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/darwin/6.0/release.html Darwin (aka Mac OS X) - ISO image available as free download
for PowerPC *and* x86 (Intel/AMD/etc.)
FAQ:
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/darwin/faq.html It's based on BSD Unix. So my understanding is, now you can
basically run MacOS X on your Athlon or P4 or whatever.
---CptSiskoX
Thanks for the links, Cpt!
What's going on here is this: 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embarrassingly out of date, long surpassed by Windows in power and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, which has developed in
parallel with the Apple (and before that, NeXT) implementations. (See
http://www.opendarwin.org/ )
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. 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.
Moved to General Software. -Wrawrat 