The Darwin team announced the availability of the source code for Darwin 7.0. These sources correspond to Mac OS X 10.3, and are available via the web. Also, the CVS repository has been updated for gcc, gdb, cups, efax, gimp-print, tcl, Rendezvous, StreamingServer, and HeaderDoc.
Apple Darwin OS 7.0 Released
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Maybe I missed it, but is there a link to download the ISO for this version? Thanks.
Will probably appear at http://www.opendarwin.org/downloads/ soon.
Rendezvous is open source? All of it? Some of it? Anyone have a clue? I should probably scour apple.com but last time I tried I got lost.
I’d really like to try Darwin, But I don’t have the hardware. I am seriously thinking of buying one of those shiny new G4 iBooks, but in the mean time, I’d be quite happy just to get Darwin running on one of my x86 machines, but Darwin currently doesn’t play nice with AMD.
rendezvious is Apple’s implementation of zeroconf… it is free and open and all that.
As mburns said, Rendezvous is Apple’s marketing name for their implementation of ZeroConf. ZeroConf is an IETF working group initiated by Apple, but also consisting of people from Sun and others.
Various sources exist from Apple’s implementation, like the complete mDNSResponder source (mDNS is the second of the three ZeroConf layers).
There are various implementations I know of:
– Mandrake Linux for PPC supposedly contains a ZeroConf implementation
– Apple’s iTunes for Windows uses it – proof that it ain’t platform-limited
– there’s a software “Howl” that adds some Rendezvous functionality to IE for Windows. See http://www.swampwolf.com/products/
I wish there was an approach to make an iChat/Rendezvous-compatible messenger for Windows.
any review on how it works on x86 ?
“any review on how it works on x86?”
This isn’t exactly a review, but if you look near the top and way down at the bottom, it tells you just how *not ready* Darwin is for the x86 architecture.
http://www.opendarwin.org/downloads/6.6.2/INSTALL.x86.txt