Re: reincarnating nextstep

[Rogelio M. Serrano Jr.]

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On 2005-11-18 16:30:04 +0800 Chris B. Vetter <chris.vetter@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 11/18/05, Rogelio M. Serrano Jr. <rogelio@smsglobal.net> wrote:
> [...]
> > Thats ok im not planning on world domination. That looks like a good 
> > plan 
> > though.
> > The installer is not a big issue for me. The distro im building is 
> > designed 
> > for gnustep.
>
> Not intending to troll here, or start another OS-related flame-war,
> but why base it on Linux?
>
> I guess this is more of a general question, but why not focus on a
> more 'original' clone and base it on Darwin? There are a couple of
> aspects, that IMHO would make Darwin the more obvious choice, its MACH
> kernel for one thing. Yes, I know there are reported problems with
> running GNUstep on Darwin, but those could be overcome if there's
> enough focus on fixing them.
>
> Besides, with respect to Apple going Intel soon, there might even be
> an advantage regarding porting of OSX/Cocoa software since a lot of
> libraries are native to Darwin, eg. IOKit.
>
> Just my $0.02
>
> --
> Chris

Main reason is that im not familiar with darwin.

I have tried to use mach before. But at that time i was using minix
and had a problem bootstrapping mach. I did not have any of the bsd's
since i did not have broadband 3 years ago and then somebody gave me a
slackware cd.

Perhaps i should try again now. I have always had a strong "Beyond
Unix" bias but for now I only want a platform where i can focus on the
userland issues and experiment with it. I have experimented with oskit
and oskit mach and several research kernels and i was going nowhere.
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