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I'm thinking about buying a used ibook off of ebay. I would like to play with the new MAC OS, along with Darwin.
Does darwin run on top of OS X or can I install it alone just like I would with FreeBSD on my intel box?
Also, any experience with darwin? >>
???? Mac OS X runs on top of Darwin, which is Apple's version of Unix. See this
page.
In other words, Macs now all ship with Darwin Unix as the default core OS, with Mac OS X Aqua as the GUI. You can have a Darwin/Mac OS X-only system, but many people prefer dual boot with Mac OS 9.2. This also offers Classic OS 9 support from within OS X.
Hopefully when you get the iBook, OS X.1 comes with it. IMO anything prior to OS X.1 is damn near useless. Once you have X.1, you can download the updates to X.1.3. I'm not sure if you can go from X.0 to X.1 without a new disk though.
By the way, you can get Darwin for x86
here. You can't run OS X Aqua on an x86 Darwin machine though.
I personally have very little experience with the Darwin core OS per se, since I'm not a Unix guy, even though Mac OS X is what I use 99% of the time on my iBook. I just do a few Darwin Unix commands here and there from the Mac OS X terminal Window.
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