RSSApple Updates Darwin, Opens Rendezvous
By Nate Mook | Published September 25, 2002, 11:08 PM
Darwin 6.0.1, the BSD UNIX operating system that serves as the core of Mac OS X v10.2, was released Wednesday under Apple's ongoing open source initiative. Along with Darwin, Apple opened the source code to Rendezvous, the company's automatic network discovery technology that made its first appearance in Jaguar and iChat.
"Rendezvous is a major innovation in IP networking that creates dynamic networks of computers, devices and software applications with zero user configuration," said Apple senior vice president Philip Schiller in Wednesday's announcement. "By supporting an open standards process and providing open source software that is available today, Apple is encouraging the rapid adoption of Rendezvous technology.
Developers including HP, Canon and Philips have already announced their support for new the technology. AOL has also implemented Rendezvous in internal test versions of its AIM client viewed by BetaNews.
Available for both PowerPC and x86 architectures, Darwin 6.0.1 adds enhancements from FreeBSD 4.4 and the KAME IPv6/IPsec code. Darwin can be downloaded as source code or in binary form.
"Darwin 6.0.1 features improved support for POSIX threads and adds several reentrant C library functions, as well as numerous new and updated libraries including ncurses, bzip, and SASL. Darwin now uses bash as the default /bin/sh, and adds python and ruby as scripting languages," a note on Apple's Darwin developer site reads.
This has been posted up here since 9/24 and there is no sign that Apple has a version for the x86 ready to release. All you get is a "check back here" note - what gives?
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|When will the stupid x86 code be released? I want to try out this damn thing sometime.
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|With the release of Darwin for x86, it seems like Apple is in a precarious situation. Either they follow through and release a version of OS X for x86, or some programmer out there will find a way to port it.
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|Yeah, that does kinda stand out doesn't it... With all the speculation of Apple making the move to an x86 platform, and IBM doing the fabrication, I would expect that a general purpose Mac OS for all x86 machines is inevitable. Perhaps this just further promotes that.
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|Is that really a danger, though? Apple hasn't released source code for the portions of OS X that aren't in Darwin, such as Aqua.
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|It's the only way Apple can survive...it's now about 1.6 GHz behind in the speed test...additionally they are now getting up to a 166 bus...if they switch, they probably can get up to 20% of the market...if they allow others to make Macs, watch out M$
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|They're going to be going to a New PPC chip, being worked on my themselves and IBM right now.
It's funny how everyone thinks that even if Apple went to x86 they'd be able to install OSX on their PCs. Apple is going to make absolutely certain that OSX only runs on THEIR hardware, regardless of what archetecture they choose.
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|but that is why they will never get more than 5% market share
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|It is said that Apple actually has a port of OS X (the entire OS) to the x86 inside of Apple.... reported on slashdot about a week ago.
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|more like thats how they kept 5% of the marketshare. If apple hadn't bought up the companies which were cloaning their hardware killing their income they'd be dead right now. their whole selling point is "it just works" which means less time developing a gillion drivers for obscure hardware because they know it works on whatever they put out. Switching to a fancier chip is the right move. Opening the OS to the PC world is the wrong move. That would totally kill the demand for the hardware thats feeding their software evolution. I say if you give anyone with a steady 5% of the market enough time under the right principles like "pride in quality of product" which they so overly flaunt in your face they're bound to come up with something really cool and gain ground inch by inch. It may take a while and they may never dominate the majority of the market but i say give em time. (this coult come back to bite me but)I seriously doubt apple's going anywhere any time soon
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|I can't understand why people keep comparing Apples to 'oranges'. The speed of PPC chips has nothing to do with the same MHz of an x86 chip. Try comparing the same video card and bus speed, RAM and some process such as Photoshop or something else. It's quite comprable if not faster. Yes Apple's hardware is more expensive. They've started to go over to PCI, IDE and standard PC-133 RAM. This transition ot x86 chip architechture is a natural move, in the same vein.
Ultimately, they'll have some proprietary version of some sort of hardware in their machine and you will NOT be able to install OSX on your PC because of this. Some simple thing like a CMOS or ROM chip will keep you out. But, I can see hacked versions of OSX out there.
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