In the Fed-Talk mailing list, Ernest Prabhakar (Apple's product manager for Open Source & Open Standards) denies that Apple is going to close the Darwin kernel for x86: "Just to be clear, Tom Yager was speculating about why we have - so far - not released the source code of the kernel for Intel-based Macintoshes. We continue to release all the Darwin sources for our PowerPC systems, and so far have released all the non-kernel Darwin sources for Intel. Nothing has been announced, so he (and everyone else) certainly has the right to speculate. But please don't confuse 'speculation' with 'fact'."
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Member since:2005-10-02
Because it's the closest you get to Mac OS X without it being Mac OS X 
But OpenDarwin is "Open Source".
Personally, I'm considering making a home-built test-system, utilizing LFS in Patrakov's UTF-8 version combined with a GoboLinux-like approach in order to create a GNUstep-system with a directory layout identical to OPENSTEP. Just as a play thing 
Member since:2005-11-14
You may want to check out the LinuxSTEP project, it does something close to what you're proposing. It's halted though. Their website (linuxstep.org) is down, so you should check thier ideas using web.archive.org.
But really, if you want to pick a base system for a GNUstep based environment you should go for the best option, not the one that is more like OS X. Building a Free clone of OS X sounds interesting, but why stop there if you can do better? GNU/Linux or FreeBSD are better than OpenDarwin in almost everyway.
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2005-11-14
I just have this combination in my head, and it won't leave me alone -> OpenDarwin + GNUstep
Any specific reason for OpenDarwin instead of another free OS like GNU, GNU/Linux or one of the BSD's?