MacOS X "open source"
A few years back, news was buzzing over how Apple was going to make its then-next operating system, MacOS X, to be Open Source. A CVS server was set up, a number of other things were done, and people could actually contribute back code.
Fast forward more than half a decade, I was wondering today why nothing interesting has happened with that code. I mean, sure, there's OpenDarwin, but who's ever heard of someone actually running that? Not me, that's for sure.
So I went and had a look at the OpenDarwin website, trying to figure out what the hell had happened to that. Turns out that (1) according to this article, Apple's mentality to "open source" is actually not very open source at all anymore, and that (2) the OpenDarwin project has shut down by now as a result.
Guess it's too late to try anything remotely similar to "Debian GNU/Darwin" today, then.
With the last Apple Developer conference (WWDC), Apple relaunched their open-source materials at developer.apple.com so that stuff like 'launchd' (Mac OS X's equivalent of init or upstart) was available under Apple Free Software License and the Apache license, as well as setting loose the 'xnu' hybrid Darwin kernel which is at the core of Mac OS X 10.4.
The download link for Apple's latest Darwin is: http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/
Hope that helps.
I found this via 'planet.debian.org'.
Thanks for posting.
Take care.
Ken.Lewis