On 20/11/06, Markus Hitter <mah@[...].de>  wrote:
>  > But OpenDarwin 7.2.1 already comes with gcc installed. So exactly
>  > how would I leverage Linux to help upgrade Darwin?
> 
>  Not all gccs have an equal feature set. In case you wouldn't have
>  access to Xcode, you could compile Darwin's gcc on Linux to get the
>  environment to build proper mach-o binaries.

You'll also need Apple's cctools, which may be painful.

 -- Finlay

>  > There are enough FOSS apps available to make x86 Darwin a viable
>  > solution. My own focus, as a computer support provider, is to
>  > promote the use of free, open source software.
> 
>  This is a honorable goal, but you're aware quite some people tried on
>  Darwin already and failed? Apple's open source can be considered as
>  read-only and obviously lacks some 5% of the critical parts. Even if
>  you re-create those 5%, you still lack support for most of the
>  currently available PC hardware. You'd have to write drivers on your
>  own.

And there are lots of other better-supported FOSS software
distributions (especially when it comes to x86 hardware support - the
only even remotely viable reason for using Darwin on PPC would have
been that it pretty much booted on most Macs without any issues
whatsoever, but that's even been true of some Linux distros for quite
a while). So why Darwin?

 -- Finlay
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