Darwin x86 Live CD?

[Vintage Season]

Just curious... has anyone done anything to develop a Darwin (http://developer.apple.com/darwin/), OpenDarwin (http://opendarwin.org) or GNU-Darwin (http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/) / XDarwin (http://www.xdarwin.org/) live distro for x86?

My wife is a life-long Mac person (and adamantly so), but my laptop is our only portable computer. Knoppix does just fine on it, as do most other live distributions I've tested. My thought is that if such a beast as a live Darwin environment exists, preferably with a convincing Aqua environment, I could take along an extra disc and she would be much happier. And when we are traveling, a happy wife is a good thing!

- M.

[halo]

darwin hardware support is poor, I think it's hard to make live darwin cd.
Instead, it is good if somebody can make a live VMware darwin image. So more people could have a try of it.

[Fenix*NBK*]

I think, there is NO need to emulate darwin as a whole, but I think there *is* a need to recreate only i'ts look&feel, which is Aqua theme, and possibly other aspects.

If you use Darwin kernel you might find many new problems...

[robwelch100]

It is true that that mac os x is based on the Darwin project. However, the entire os is not open source. Aqua and its components are proprietary and does not suport x86 hardware. Linux User & Developer Magazine has a feature in the back dedicated to explaining Mac OS X called Bite of the Apple. Basically, As of now you can not run Aqua on an x86 archetecture. If I'm not mistaken, the only portion you could install would be Darwin and then you would be left without a graphical user interface. I'm not at home now but I think the issues of the mag are #39 &40. It is a UK publication and costs like $11 us. The plus is there are coverdisks with diferent distros. The last one had Xandros and Lycoris distros as coverdisks, the month prior it was Suse 9. Sorry to dash those hopes. Maybe someday.