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2013-11-25 , 23:42
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Originally Posted by wicket View Post
This is very cool, I will try it out when I get a bit of spare time.

I do have to ask though, why did you choose to port Darwin over FreeBSD? I'm struggling to think of any advantage for choosing Darwin unless you have some kind of crazy long-term goal of an iOS or OS X compatibility layer. :P
It wasn't me who did the work to get Darwin ported to arm, winocm did most of the work. I am in charge of porting and maintaining Darwin development tools for the project.

As for why he chose to work on this project, his explanation can be seen here.

As for why I am getting involved? I think Darwin is a pretty interesting OS and I figured that it would be a fun learning experience to get involved.

EDIT: Err, I see that Hurrian beat me to it
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