On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 05:48 PM, Sebastian Flothow wrote:
Darwin:GNU-Darwin != Apple's darwin.That's where things get confusing. Anyone care to explain the differences, or possibly absence thereof, between these three?
GNU-Darwin is a fork of Apple's darwin, and is in no way related to darwin or opendarwin, except for having the same ancestral codebase.
Apple's Darwin codebase, ie, the code that is the base of MacOSX.
GNU-Darwin:
Some GNU peoples' fork of the Darwin codebase -- an attempt to make a GNU-like operating system like Linux out of the Darwin base. (they replace many of Darwin's BSD-ish userland tools with their GNU equivalents)
OpenDarwin:
An officially unofficial project from Apple to aid in making Darwin more accessible to the open-source community. Since you need special access to commit to Apple's official Darwin, OpenDarwin exists for a larger user base to have access to getting changes back into Darwin proper. Think of it as a growing ground for new ideas for Darwin development, and a filter to get changes from the community back into Apple's Darwin by way of a core set of developers that have access to the official tree.
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