Darwin OS iso's

Hello everyone!

I love everything about Apple, in fact I'm studying programming with the goal of writing Macintosh applications. And so I have and old iMac and an old iBook with Darwin 7.0.1 in order to have not only a pure 'unix' workstation to learn on, but also to understand the relationships between OS X programming and programming for other 'unix' OS's.

Anyway, for the last month I've been trying to install GNUstep without any luck, and as a last resort I thought I would try installing Darwin 8.0.

Of course, I was frustrated when it seemed the links had been removed, but even more so when I couldn't find an explanation. (I'm not even totally sure that the distributions aren't there - Apple has some amazingly archaic stuff still available for download, but you'd have better luck just clicking around until you find it than you would using the search feature)

I've even tried googling to try to find some news or explanation, and I couldn't find anything. Is this something that is so new that news has not had time to hit the net, or something so old that everyone has quit talking about it? Or could it be that the links are still there, but just tucked away somewhere that I'm breezing right past them?

Any word on what's happened or any help pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!!

Best Regards,
Bryan Pierce

tangerine 300Mhz /indigo 366Mhz iBooks / bluebery 333Mhz, graphite 600Mhz iMacs, Mac OS X (10.3.x)

Posted on May 30, 2009 11:52 PM

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May 31, 2009 5:04 AM in response to Bryan

I'm not even sure I understand:

Read the documentation.
Does DarwinBuild take all the packages and build them at once?

It will.
Do you have to build all the packages individually?

No but you can.
..and this wouldn't give you a complete operating system, would it?

Yes, if you can get it to compile.
And do people actually do that?

Yes
I guess what I'm asking is: Is it any easier than it sounds?

No, it is not easy.

May 31, 2009 4:44 AM in response to Mark Jalbert

I'm not even sure I understand:
* There's DarwinBuild
* There's a list of 50 or so packages
Does DarwinBuild take all the packages and build them at once?
Do you have to build all the packages individually?
...and this wouldn't give you a complete operating system, would it?

And do people actually do that?
I mean, unless I'm missing something, this sounds like it is beyond the scope of all but the most guru-est of all programming gurus. For a wannabe, like me, it seems like it would take years and years and years.

I guess what I'm asking is: Is it any easier than it sounds?

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