TSUME wrote:

>>I also believe that Darwin 8 is pretty well synched up to FreeBSD 5?
>>http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/
> 
> I keep hearing the userland, yes. Which is a nice giant step. Apple wants
> to stay toward the nice heaven of being related to BSD. They have helped
> many projects with support.

Why is that such a huge step ? Apple has been constantly synching up
to FreeBSD since they started the Darwin project ? (also other *BSD)

 > *shrug* I guess so. The GCC compiler still has issues, but work arounds
> exist. I realize not every platform can be supported well,

The major platforms I am using (Linux/Darwin) are built with GCC.
I would say it works rather well, even if it can be somewhat slow.

> like how GUI toolkits out there which are multiplatform.

Sorry, I just didn't understand this sentence in this context... ?

--anders