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I don't understand the motivation for this project. OpenDarwin (yes, not PureDarwin) was motivated by putting Darwin on Intel, and when Apple moved to Intel pro

by delinka 13y ago

I don't understand the motivation for this project. OpenDarwin (yes, not PureDarwin) was motivated by putting Darwin on Intel, and when Apple moved to Intel processors, it pretty much killed OpenDarwin's steam. I get that people have their pet projects and do things "because they can," but attempting to drum up support for your project from the community requires that you explain to people why they should care.

zimbatm 13y ago
Some people are interested in learning how things work. In that case the main page's description is enough to get them going. I don't think that every project needs to be treated like a commercial product. This kind of project usually doesn't have a direct value to consumers but prepares the ground for other projects. It can help better understand the OS and help jailbreak IOS. Or provide drivers to install OSX on a PC or a VM and then allow cross-OS browser testing. Or maybe help a wine-like project for OSX apps. Who knows but without that project all these might not happen because the barrier to entry might be too high.