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Apple
Introduces Darwin, Open Source Movement for Mac OS X Server!
- 16 Mar 99.
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Apple
announced in a separate press release the introduction of the launch
of Darwin, an open-source release for the Mac OS X Server operating
system foundation. Darwin will be available free to developers in the
next few weeks at (www.apple.com/darwin).
With this announcement, Apple becomes the first mainstream operating
system provider to release its source code to the public and base its
system software strategy on Open Source technologies.
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- "The Open Source movement is revolutionizing
the way operating systems evolve and Apple is leading the industry by
becoming the first major OS provider to make it's core operating system
available to Open Source developers," said Avie Tevanian, Apple's senior
vice president of Software Engineering. "We look forward to working
with the Open Source community to enhance the feature set, performance
and quality of our Mac OS X products."
- The first release of Darwin consists of the foundation layer of Mac
OS X Server, including enhancements to the Mach 2.5 microkernel and
BSD 4.4 operating system, as well as core Apple technologies like AppleTalk,
HFS+, file system and the NetInfo distributed database. For more info
on Darwin go to (www.apple.com/darwin)
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