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Would it be feasible to have Debian + Darwin? I am wondering about driver availability.. Does Darwin support all hardware FreeBSD does? Is it stripped down to M
by buster 13y ago
Would it be feasible to have Debian + Darwin?
I am wondering about driver availability.. Does Darwin support all hardware FreeBSD does?
Is it stripped down to Mac-like hardware?
And in general what would i get from using Darwin as opposed to Linux or *BSD apart from the ability to run a limited amount of Mac-only commandline tools?
Also, looks like a dead project..
Also, given that Apple moves away from open source more and more [1], i really wouldn't go down that road... you'll end up surrounded by proprietary software, extensions, drivers more likely then not.
[1] https://plus.google.com/103674611711666213369/posts/7j1c2bZ7jJb https://plus.google.com/103674611711666213369/posts/7j1c2bZ7...
- LukeShu 13y ago> Does Darwin support all hardware FreeBSD does? Is it stripped down to Mac-like hardware? I think you have the common misconception that Darwin uses the FreeBSD kernel. It does have components from FreeBSD, and one of the principal engineers was the founder of FreeBSD. However, the kernel is actually Mach+XNU (Mach is a micro-kernel, XNU is a Unix-kernel-like wrapper around it).
- 0x09 13y agoThis is just being pedantic, but XNU is the name of the whole kernel, which describes the combination of Mach and the BSD interfaces.