If it weren’t July, I would have called this an April Fools Joke. OpenDarwin is shutting down. They’re not happy about what OpenDarwin has turned into.
OpenDarwin was originally created with the goal of providing a development environment for building and developing Mac OS X sources as well as developing a standalone Darwin OS derivative. OpenDarwin was meant to be a development community and a proving ground for fixes and features for Mac OS X and Darwin, which could be picked up by Apple for inclusion in the canonical sources. OpenDarwin has failed to achieve its goals in 4 years of operation, and moves further from achieving these goals as time goes on. For this reason, OpenDarwin will be shutting down.
The geeks among us (including myself) are going to be concerned about what will happen to DarwinPorts (which I switched to from Fink a while back). The slightly less geeky Darwine will also need to find a new home.
Finally, the premier project that will have to find a new home is WebKit. Of particular concern is Surfin Safari, which lets anyone get first hand information about the state of Safari and where it’s going.
I hope they all find a new home.
[via Red Sweater Links]
