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[zfire89]

Has anyone one tried or has Apple Rhapsody DR2.

[Mareep2000]

I have it on a CD somewhere, but I have never managed to get it to install  

[zhLilDoggi]

I have.  

Its pretty cool when you let the GUI sit for 10 mins, the GUI dims.  

[RevoX]

i have rhapsody dr1 and dr2 both ppc and x86. Runs nicely on my pentium 2.

[zfire89]

can some one hook me up with a copy for x86, my email is zfire@insightbb.com i wanna put it on a 366mhz celeron and just mess around with it because it looks kinda interesting.

[zhLilDoggi]

Nice avatar.

[zfire89]

Since it has a early version of darwin on it I wonder if u can actually some how update darwin to a new version

[mikesown]

I tried it a long while ago. It is overrated imho. Almost no applications were made for it outside the core OS utilities, and there is no rosetta like functionality, so you pretty much can't run anything on it.

[zhLilDoggi]

mikesown, on Aug 28 2005, 12:03 AM, said:

I tried it a long while ago. It is overrated imho. Almost no applications were made for it outside the core OS utilities, and there is no rosetta like functionality, so you pretty much can't run anything on it.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Its part of NeXT, so I've heard. So you may be able to run some NeXT programs
on it.

[sHARD>>]

zhLilDoggi, on Aug 28 2005, 01:35 AM, said:

Its part of NeXT, so I've heard. So you may be able to run some NeXT programs
on it.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

BSD -> NeXT -> Rhapsody -> OS X Server -> OS X

Those are the degrees of seperation...basically.

[blahsucks]

It's not even technically true BSD; it's the Mach kernel. It goes more like this:

BSD -> Mach -> NeXT -> OpenStep -> Rhapsody -> OSX Server -> OSX
Macintosh -------------> Copland/OS8 ----------> MacOS 9/Classic -----^

It's a little lopsided, and the timing is off, but it's close enough.

[iLux]

It's a little bit more complicated

BSD-->Mach-->NeXTSTEP-->OPENSTEP+NetBSD-->Raphsody DR1+BSD Lite-->Rhapsody DR2-->Mac OS X Server-->Mac OS X

[stryder]

Rhapsody did not use the Darwin kernel.  It did not use Carbon or Cocoa for application development.  It did not support kexts like the current OS X does...  so what you get is what you get.  When you install it, whatever is on it is whatever you can run, and whatever drivers are on it (very, VERY, few) are all you get.  You think the drivers included with Darwin are sparse, Rhapsody DR2 had support for only a handful of video cards, and a few network cards.  It's not even worth the download to try it out.  It was cool when I got it in my mailing, 'cause I thought "hmmm, Mac on intel...   ", and tried it out.  But that's as far as it goes, trying it out...  it was really buggy for me.

[RevoX]

there's a website named www.openstep.se that works on bringing rhapsody to life.

[sampson]

the reason there was no cocoa/carbon was because they were trying out the yellowbook api functions. they're a set of apis that are platform inspecific to make compiling an app on x86 or ppc a breeze

[blahsucks]

I'm pretty sure NeXTStep and OpenStep implemented Cocoa (at least in an early fashion). Rhapsody was simply an upgrade on OpenStep, so I'm thinking that there was Cocoa in Rhapsody. Maybe not the same Cocoa, but a nice stepping stone for NeXT software developers.

And YellowBook = Cocoa, BTW.

[sHARD>>]

blahsucks, on Sep 17 2005, 10:03 PM, said:

I'm pretty sure NeXTStep and OpenStep implemented Cocoa (at least in an early fashion). Rhapsody was simply an upgrade on OpenStep, so I'm thinking that there was Cocoa in Rhapsody. Maybe not the same Cocoa, but a nice stepping stone for NeXT software developers.

And YellowBook = Cocoa, BTW.

It's Box. YellowBox. Unless your talking about something else. And YellowBox still runs in Windows. It's kinda nice actually.

[Nikkorasu]

darwinuser, on Aug 19 2005, 06:28 PM, said:

i have rhapsody dr1 and dr2 both ppc and x86. Runs nicely on my pentium 2.

Is there any way you could get me a copy of DR1 and DR2 for x86?  I'd like to try them out and tinker with it.  Thanks.

[vince29]

@sHard : where did you get yellowbox ?
I've been looking for it for quite a long time.

[Sherry Haibara]

I want Rhapsody DR2 to test it.
Sherry Haibara