OpenDarwin is (almost) dead, long live DarwinPorts

Yesterday, the OpenDarwin project announced it is shutting down:

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 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.

I’m disappointed that no strong movement emerged in support of a Darwin-based open source operating system, but perhaps it’s just a testament to the growing power and polish of other available OSs, e.g. Ubuntu.

I’m glad at least that the excellent DarwinPorts project (which is hosted by OpenDarwin) is not going away.