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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2005-12-13
I must say I agree.
Open Solaris would even be a better way for one to run ZFS anyway.
What I'd like to see though was for some of the core Darwin components like Open Directory and DirectoryServices to be ported to some open source OS like Open Solaris for use as a complete Mac OS X Server replacement along with Mac OS X clients. This would also make the use of Apple's open source CalendarServer much easier, as it ties itself quite tightly towards the Apple Open directory API structure.
The rest of it, Apple might as well keep to itself, if you ask me!