Hi.

I have been wondering, is it even possible to build darwin from linux? Is it??

Darwin is the GPL'd Mac OSX, isn't it? So it's based on a UNIX kernel rather than a linux one. However, I daresay it would be an interesting project, many headaches tho! Darwin doesn't really work very well on it's own.

No darwin is under it's own licence. And OSX is based on darwin. Darwin is said to be best when it's with puredarwin.

I messed about with it in a VM to see how it would look, didn't get very far. Would be interesting to see if it could be run under ext3/4 with a linux kernel, it would prob be more stable.

I've been puzzling over this thread since the original post yesterday. It's not at all clear to me what is being asked. If you think of Linux as the Linux kernel with the GNU user space, and Darwin being based on the Mac microkernel and elements of BSD for a hybrid kernel, then what is being asked? Are we just talking about cross-compiling with gcc or something like that? What is it you want to do (in more detail).

There are a variety of projects that take off from Darwin. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_...rived_projects. There is a project to port GNU projects to Darwin, GNU-Darwin. There are other projects. There are a bunch of links at the end of that page. MkLinux is a Mac kernel hosting the Linux kernel as a server http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux on the PowerPC platform.

Thing is, nobody's really been able to explain to me the benefit of running Darwin as your OS as opposed to just running OSX. Only reason I can think of is if you have older PowerPC Mac hardware and you want to run it as a server. Even then, you can just use a Linux distro compiled for PPC.

But that's just me. Your mileage may vary.