Darwin 8.0.1 Available

An anonymous reader writes "It seems that Apple's finally released binary versions of Darwin 8.0.1 for both PowerPC and x86 (Apple ID required to download from Apple mirrors). ISO (for x86) and CDR (for PowerPC) images are available for download. This comes a few weeks after Apple posted source code for Darwin 8, which you can get from here."

WTF are apple up to?

[Saven Marek]

What is this? this is ridiculous. My current up to date tiger Mac is only on darwin 8.0.0 and now they are giving away free 8.0.1? Wake up Apple some people are paying you to get products, not to pay for lagging behind. Fair enough if its the same version but I dont see any 8.0.1 in Tiger anywhere soon??? :angry:

Re:Innocent Question

[argent]

What benefits are there to running Darwin on x86 as opposed to Linux or any other BSD?

Chicks dig scars.

I 8 MY IPOD

[FredFnord]

It was delicious.

-fred

Re:Huh?

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm honestly confused. How does Darwin differ from Tiger and why the hell should I care?

Well this is Darwin 8.0.1, and your "tiger" Mac is only running 8.0. So you should go download the new Darwin (it's a free download) and install it on both your Macs. Then you'll have the latest and greatest. I suggest a Clean Install just to make sure everything is fresh.

Re:Innocent Question

[Temporal]

Well, it is a microkernel, if you're into that. It has kqueue() and AIO, which make it better than Linux (although Linux did finally get around to adding full AIO a couple months ago; slowpokes), though FreeBSD obviously has had both of those for a long time. Yeah, I guess it's basically a microkernel FreeBSD. You might---- er, excuse me, but there seems to be an angry mob of Linux users outside my door.