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ChillieMac · Aug 17, 2002, 05:03 PM

Anyone here know if the Darwin Os would or could work on a Sharp Zaurus PDA? Is Darwin too big for it? Could it be scaled down enough to work?

Any thoughts on the subject are welcome.

MacGorilla · Aug 17, 2002, 06:53 PM

Darwin wouldn't work on a zaurus or any other PDA. Why? It's too big. Even at it's bare minimum it's 5 MB which is HUGE by PDA standards.

Plus Darwin wasn't designed to fit in such a small space, it has no PDA friendly functions, NO GUi of it's own and would have to be ported to the zaurus's processor (StrongARM).

ChillieMac · Aug 17, 2002, 07:22 PM

Thanks for the quick answer,

Also, do you know weither or not the Linux based OS on the Zaurus PDA is really a Unix based OS. If so, wouldn't it be possible to incorporate Darwin services or compatability to it. Like Quicktime etc.

MacGorilla · Aug 17, 2002, 10:04 PM

Linux is a Unix-like OS like Darwin. It would be a technical challenge to try to add Darwin like functions. The closest you can come is NetBSD, which I think has been ported.