GNU-Darwin and SEDarwin

[Posted November 8, 2006 by ris]

GNU-Darwin is a free, BSD-based distribution. Darwin is Apple's base for Mac OS X, without the proprietary bits. Add the ports system and package management from FreeBSD and all your favorite GNU tools and you have GNU-Darwin, a free Mac OS X compatible distribution for PowerPC and x86. The project has recently made available a new source archive.

A related project has also surfaced; SEDarwin, a port of the TrustedBSD Mandatory Access Control Framework to Darwin. From the announcement: "The October 31 snapshot includes the most recent SELinux kernel and user space components available. We are still working to adapt the Treysys reference policy for Apple's System, but the kernel and user space components are largely complete."

GNU-Darwin and SEDarwin

Posted Nov 9, 2006 13:55 UTC (Thu) by davecb (subscriber, #1574) [Link]

That's cool: the MAC code underlies
a bunch of useful functionality, including
ate least fine-grained capabilites and
containers (aka zones), although you
wouldn't guess than on first acquaintance

--dave