is anyone working on turn Darwin into a full OS?

[metalf8801]

I wasn't sure where to post this sins the bsd section is just about freebsd and openbsd and this isn't really a technical question so I thought I would post it here.

I'm just wondering if anyone is working on making a full OS out of Darwin (other then OSX!) are Puredarwin or gnudarwin still active?



this is why if your wondering
I'm just wondering because a programer friend of mine wants to right a program that will work on all major OS (meaning Windows, Linux, OSX, and OS/2) he has computers running Windows, OS/2, and Linux but he doesn't have a mac and I don't think he should buy a mac just to write a simple telnet program for it (yeah I know there are a lot of telnet programs out there but he wants to write his own I'm just trying to help him). I read that programs that will work on Drawin will work on OSX which is why I'm looking for an active Darwin OS.

[GNU-Fan]

Hi,

PureDarwin seems still active and can be run in a VM as well.

But in my experience, GNU/Linux and MacOS-X differ only marginally in where the include files are, as far as POSIX is concerned. If you use the Autoconf mechanism, I would expect little or no trouble when porting it. After all, there isn't much needed beside the Sockets interface and some ANSI C standard things for a telnet app.

I would even go as far as saying that once it compiles on one of the mayor BSDs, it will compile on MacOS-X too--provided your pal obeyed the given standards like POSIX.