Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 26th Dec 2008 11:58 UTC, submitted by probono
Most of you will know that the underlying core set of components of Mac OS X and the iPhone operating system are released under the Apple Public Source License, an FSF-approved open source license. Few of you, however, will have actually used Darwin in any other form than Mac OS X or the iPhone OS. Despite numerous projects attempting so, Darwin has never gained any significant traction apart from Apple's own interest. The PureDarwin project tries to rise from the ashes of the OpenDarwin project, and has just released a Christmas developer preview.
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2006-03-26
Exactly. Tons of OS projects jump up like this every day it seems. None of them seem to offer any more than what is already out there. No-one does anything creative with the GUI, or tries to improve that at all. Everyone just seems to be content with: Take a linux/darwin,bsd kernel, slap some existing packages in it to make it usable, slap KDE/Gnome/Enlightenment/or what have you on top of that, then claim you just created an OS.
I would love to see a project like this though that runs off of openstep gui, and uses objective c/gnustep for their main api. I think that would set it apart better. That combined with an appearance overhaul on openstep.
Edited 2008-12-26 13:30 UTC