Ok i have a questions here. Ok first of all i know that the darwin kernel started off from FreeBSD and unix ported and now its used for those and Mac os X i was wonder if theres a darwin Kernel for linux yet??? If anyone know could they plz provide a link for me. I did some googleing and i couldnt find that much i found some mesg boards about it but like they were pretty dead and when i mean dead i mean like years last post was like 2001-2000 Anyways thats for ur help!!!


Matt3333

The linux kernel is linux. The programs which run on top eg make, c libraries etc are provided by GNU. That is why linux is often called GNU/Linux.

You can use a different kernel with the same packages like the HURD kernel made by the GNU group. (this is not as far through development as the linux kernel though). In this case you would be using GNU/Hurd and not linux.

If you want to use the darwin kernel I think you need to use MacOSX. They do provide the source code on the apple site so you could compile it yourself but I guess you would need to use mac hardware??

chang cheh

Actually, a complete OS based on the Darwin kernel can be downloaded fromhttp://www.opendarwin.org. I haven't had any luck getting it up and running, but then again, that was a couple of versions ago. OpenDarwin runs on both Apple PPC and Intel x86 hardware.

Darwin itself is provided in an x86 compatible form by Apple themselves (in addition to the PowerPC version) so it's possible but the PC hardware support is fairly narrow. From what I gathered from the last time I tried it it's essentially just 440BX boxes with Intel LAN cards although that was about version 1.3, it may well have changed since then although I'm fairly sure my current nForce2 rig won't work with it

Actually.........From what i've gathered in http://www.opendarwin.org/hardware it should im just going to check out my system to see if im supported and then im going to download it Thanx djbanaan!!!

Matt3333

There is also GNUDarwin, but I believe that OpenDarwin is the only x86 Darwin port that is sanctioned (if that is not too strong a word) by Apple... or something like that.

In addition to the other darwin resources mentioned above - if you do a google search for darwin and monkeyvoodoo - you'll find the monkeyvoodoo guide for running darwin on x86 hardware.

Apparently some super-freaks out there have it up and running.