What's the opinion on Darwin here?  Not just Mac OS X, but Darwin on a
base level
reddit / BSD

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papajohn56 · 2010-02-28 01:17

I've used it in the past and it seemed nice, and I mean this as all
license issues aside if you don't like the licenses it's released
under.

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jonhohle · 2010-02-28 02:10

personally, I like launchd and the BSD userland.

Not Darwin specific, but I also like that most of the graphical system
tools have command line equivalents in OS X (softwareupdate, diskutil,
open, ql, mdfind, dscl, etc.).

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neoice · 2010-02-28 07:26

I wish OSX had ZFS and PF. it would be the only system I ever ran.

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[deleted] · 2010-03-05 13:13

Didn't 10.5 have both of those. PF as the firewall and hidden ZFS?

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neoice · 2010-03-06 06:12

OSX still has ipf, which is similar but different. And if I recall
correctly, the ZFS support was majorly lacking. I dont think it had
RAIDZ and may have even been missing write support. Im pretty sure it
didnt have create support

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cocoabean · 2010-03-18 09:19

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS#Mac_OS_X

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galtthedestroyer · 2010-04-27 13:27

I tried darwin once:

I had a G4 whose logic board went bad.  OSX wouldn't run on it, but
Linux ran great.  Of course PPC Linux didn't have flash, and at the
time, no java.  So I thought, "hey darwin is open source, and with it
I can get flash and java to have a fully functional computer.  also, I
get binary compatibility with OSX, just not aqua, etc."  It was
HORRIBLE!  Poor documentation, lots of difficulty getting it installed
or getting anything to work, etc, etc.  Linux is the odd man out in
the world of OS's.  BSD is more out there.  Darwin is way way out
there and it shows.

No java shows how long ago I tried it.  In fact java was so close to
open source that a month later I put Linux back on it and the only
thing lacking was flash.  It made a great computer!