Quadruple Boot System

David Hacker yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Sat May 29 07:59:01 2004


OpenDarwin is focusing primarily on the X86 PC port of Darwin.

David C. Hacker, DVM
212 N 1st St #2
New Salem, ND 58563
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On May 28, 2004, at 10:16 PM, Ted Goranson wrote:

> David Hacker wrote on 5/28/04:
>> With the darwin 7.0.1 installer from apple you can use either Fink or 
>> DarwinPorts as a port system to install XFree or X.org, any window 
>> maker, including KDE and Gnome, as well as most other common 
>> software.  The Fink system includes prebuilt binaries for download or 
>> you can build them with the autobuild system included. DarwinPorts 
>> requires you to build them all but the process is automated you just 
>> type Port install whatever and it downloads the source, patches it 
>> for PPC, configures it, and compiles and installs it.
>
> Well then, I just don't understand why opendarwin.org exists. Is it 
> for everything BUT Darwin?
>
> Still it sure would be nice to install a second copy of Panther and 
> mostly run it just as I would the BSD/X11 system I envision. Possible?
>
> Best, Ted
> -- 
> Ted Goranson
> Advanced Enterprise Research Office
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