Re: Re: [ros-dev] Mac OS X clone???

To clarify i mean OS X and perhaps even os 9. I know about darwin but i was wondering if there was an os x clone out there. Reactos is a version of windows as this clone will be an open-source version of os x or os 9.
> From: "Klemens Friedl" [e-mail]
> Date: 2005/03/12 Sat AM 10:42:17 EST
> To: ReactOS Development List [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: [ros-dev] Mac OS X clone???
> > I was wondering if there was a project that would be doing a binary
> > compatible OS X system. What reactos does for windows maybe this project
>
> can do
> > for OS X. I was just wondering. I know that pearpc emulates a ppc
>
> processor,
> > but wether or not a full os exists is the question. I know also that some
> > versions of linux exist for ppc.
>
> Do you mean MacOS X?
>
> Darwin has been the open-source OS technology underlying Apple's Mac OS X
> operating system, with all development being managed and hosted by Apple:
> -> http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
> -> http://www.opendarwin.org/
>
> -- Klemens Friedl
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[art yerkes]

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:18:17 -0500
[e-mail] wrote:
> To clarify i mean OS X and perhaps even os 9. I know about darwin but i was wondering if there was an os x clone out there. Reactos is a version of windows as this clone will be an open-source version of os x or os 9.

- MacOS X is darwin with cocoa.  Cocoa is really just openstep with a 
  pretty face, so GNUstep is essentially a cocoa clone, minus the very
  new stuff.
- A version of MacOS has always been free (as in beer) with a macintosh
  computer and MacOS 7.5.3 is free (as in beer) to anyone.
- Classic MacOS is like a big complicated version of dos.  If you start
  at the first documented Line-A trap, and keep going until the last,
  you'll have a clone of MacOS.  You can even patch your running MacOS
  version with your new partial MacOS clone to see if it's compatible.
-- 
Here's a simple experiment. Stand on a train track between two locomotives
which are pushing on you with equal force in opposite directions. You will
exhibit no net motion. None the less, you may soon begin to notice that
something important is happening.
-- Robert Stirniman

[Mike Swanson]

GNUstep barely focuses on Cocoa compatibility, but it seems like it's
almost ignored to them. If you have applications for Mac OS X that
don't rely on Cocoa or any other proprietary part of Mac OS X, you can
use it on Darwin (provided you have source code).

You won't need an entire operating system, as Apple already provides
it freely (as in freedom). You'll just need to clone the graphics
systems (well, there's many other proprietary components, but the
point is that you already have a free OS to built on, Darwin).