Re: What exactly is Darwin?

On Jul 22, 2006, at 11:08 PM, L-28C wrote:

> Hello everyone!
> Alright, from what I've gathered, it's an official open source  
> clone of MacOS X for x86...  Am I right?

Nope.

>   If not, what is it?

It is basically an externally hosted project that mirrors and extends  
Apple's Darwin OS (and related open source projects). Darwin OS is  
basically the kernel and POSIX user-land, in other words a subset of  
what makes Mac OS X well... Mac OS X.

> How can I download it?  Thanks! ;)

<http://opendarwin.org/en/downloads/>
<http://darwinsource.opendarwin.org/>
etc.

-Shawn