On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:31:34AM -0500, sean finney wrote: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:32:21PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > They're not sufficiently similar for that to work, no. Apart from > > anything else, unless you're running Linux on PowerPC then it's a > > different processor architecture. Also, while MacOS X under the hood is > > similar to Linux in that it's a Unix-like operating system, it's a > > different Unix-like operating system, essentially BSD. > > that leads me to wonder if it would work on a NetBSD or FreeBSD box....
I suspect that's unlikely. The BSDs aren't in general binary-compatible with each other: for example, they have different libc versions. MacOS X appears to have a completely different shared library architecture to the other BSDs. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
