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Since it was first released in March 1999, Darwin has been the open-source OS technology underlying Apple's Mac OS X operating system. OpenDarwin 7.2.1 is based on the Darwin 7.2 (which corresponds to Mac OS X 10.3.2) source release.

changes

Notable changes from the OpenDarwin 6.6.2 release:

• Install script has been enhanced to allow user creating, setting root password
• AuthenticAMD cpu's are now properly detected
• cvs from upstream feature releases
• locate from NetBSD
• at/atrun synced with FreeBSD-5
• various unix software has been updated.
• ODTulipDriver, a driver for tulip-based ethernet controllers, has been added.
• ncutil, a network configuration tool for Darwin, has been updated to version 2.1
• all the changes from Darwin 6.6 to Darwin 7.2
  

supported hardware 

The x86 version of OpenDarwin supports:

IDE:
PIIX4 IDE controllers have been found to work.
VIA VT82xx IDE chipsets
Attached devices must be UDMA/33 compatible or better.

Ethernet:
Intel 8255x 10/100 ethernet controllers are supported.
3Com 905cXXX based ethernet controllers are supported.
DEC Tulip based ethernet controllers are supported.
   - ADMtek 981, 983, 985
   - PNIC 82c168
   - DEC 21143
   - preliminary support for PNIC2 and DEC 21140

Video:
You must have a VESA 2.0 compliant video card. Almost all modern graphics cards are VESA 2.0 compliant. However, emulators such as vmware do not have VESA 2.0 compliant emulated video cards.

Successfully tested hardware:
All 440BX motherboards tested have worked with their internal IDE controllers. IBM ThinkPad A21m (with onboard Intel ethernet) MSI K8T Neo motherboard with Athlon64 3200+

See http://www.opendarwin.org/hardware/ for a community-created site with hardware that has been found to work.

At least 128 MB RAM are needed.