Apple releases Intel Mac OS X kernel

Anyone else notice what is included in the list of binary drivers you need to run?

Dont_Steal_MacOS_X.kext


Looks like you wont be able to run this release on regular x86 systems, like you could run darwin on before. In any case, it looks like they talk to the TPM chip using the SMBus to verify if it is an actual "mac". Should be interesting to see where this goes 8)

The source is here:
http://kernel.macosforge.org/

Where is the darwin source? I don't see it in the normal place:

http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/

Great. first comment is a whine.

"Darwin, the kernel software at the center of Mac OS X, is open source." Darwin is not the kernel. Darwin is the UNIX underlying Mac OS X. It's kernel is named XNU. I don't know why I keep seeing this mistake on less-knowledgable Mac sites.

ho hey slow down

apple made some talks years ago about opensource, they love it and all the stuff

OS X kernel is mostly totally coming from opensource stuff (not all linux software, you know ? ) : some bsd, mach and others works.

so it's NORMAL to expect that from Apple. not imposed but expected.

that is the right of apple to keep the source and STOP TO confound "opensource community" with the first guy speaking here or ME. you speak about many people and enterprises with MANY different goals and project.

(and why do you think the FSF should care ? is it GPL source code here ? NO, so the FSF even give a crap about os x kernel. but if you want to know if ASPL code is useable under a Gnu public licence, well.. you can ask the FSF. but mostly : forget the FSF. )


I just would like to know what is the difference in darwin intel 10.4.7 xnu and the kernel in real Mac os X intel 10.4.7. what is the kernel extensions needed ?
why the source code is different ? (drm ? mac intel specific chipset ? protection ? licensed code from thirds parties ? )

you have to understand than Sun and IBM are a LOT OF more hopeful than apple about their own opensource software.
with apple , we are often in a kind of weird state or plain amateurism.

but yeah, we have to thank the effort and works from Apple.

Indeed, Apple is a commercial entity. It will release the kernal if it makes good business sence.

In this case, they have decided it does.

They are not Mozilla. Or a Linux distro.

What does this mean to the Windows Intel community? Are we going to see people start porting Mac OS X over to non-mac Intel machines?! Probably not... but just thought I would think outloud.

jh,
I think a more apt analogy would be if your neighbor was letting you borrow his power saw and then bought a new power saw that that he wuoldn't let you borrow for a few months until he got it working just right.
Regardless of how good an open source community member Apple has been, its not a community that have to be in at all. Be happy we get what we do.

"Apple has been VERY poor open source community members. VERY poor."

Because there was a delay in them releasing the source? Is the entire Open Source community this impatient and bratty, unable to accept that delays do occur in life? And to think that Apple could have simply not released the source at all without much complaint from anybody except a tiny minority that expects Apple to be the FSF.