On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 07:09:32PM +0100, Mario Marietto wrote: > I've found it : https://airyx.org/ >
Which has just decided to write a new GUI for itself - because it can. Without using a pre-existing GUI. Oh, and it's renamed itself. > Il giorno mar 22 nov 2022 alle ore 19:06 Mario Marietto < > marietto2...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > > There is a fresh project, a couple of years old and in development, about > > a linux distro,if I remember correctly,or maybe it is based on BSD,with the > > goal to run the apple's software and it has the graphical interface which > > looks the same as the MacOSX. Does anyone remember the name ? The advantage > > is to not infringe any apple's copyright for sure. I'm not sure but if the > > system is different from the MacOSX but it offers the advantage to run the > > original apple's tools,is this a copyright infringement ? > > If it looks sufficiently like MacOSX - it infringes Apple's copyright. Apple have had cases based on button shape before now - and they have attack dog lawyers. Various other Linux distros have produced something that looks a litle like MacOS - if it gets too similar, Apple get *very* twitchy. > > Il giorno mar 22 nov 2022 alle ore 18:52 Miles Fidelman < > > mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> ha scritto: > > > >> Well... that would basically be MacOS, or a GUI that looks like MacOS > >> running on another BSD. > >> > >> > >> > >> Mario Marietto wrote: > >> > >> How difficult will it be to create a BSD system with the look and feel of > >> the MacOSX ? I mean,not only based on aesthetics,but more structural,but > >> not so much structural to incite the apple's lawyers. > >> See above: it's not straightforward. At the point when you want to do this, you might as well be running a straight copy of BSD - and in every likelihood, it will never run Mac applications. > >> Il giorno mar 22 nov 2022 alle ore 17:41 Jeffrey Walton < > >> noloa...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > >> > >>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 11:10 AM Mario Marietto <marietto2...@gmail.com> > >>> wrote: > >>> > > >>> > How much FreeBSD code is inside the MacOSX code today ? > >>> > >>> That's a good question. The Darwin kernel is XNU. But a lot of > >>> userland code is BSD. In fact, a lot of Apple's man pages say (or used > >>> to say) they are for BSD. See attached for the codesign man page. > >>> > >>> I remember around the time that Apple adopted the Mach kernel. They > >>> finally got a memory manager! No more "It's not my fault" and error > >>> code 8 (iirc). I am kind of surprised I can't find a YouTube video > >>> with an old Mac saying it... > >>> > >>> Also > >>> https://www.reddit.com/r/BSD/comments/1mix5h/id_like_the_differences_in_darwin_and_freebsd/ > >>> and see https://github.com/apple/darwin-xnu . > >>> > >>> Jeff > >>> > >> > >> With every good wish, as ever, Andy Cater > >> -- > >> Mario. > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. > >> In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra > >> > >> Theory is when you know everything but nothing works. > >> Practice is when everything works but no one knows why. > >> In our lab, theory and practice are combined: > >> nothing works and no one knows why. ... unknown > >> > >> > > > > -- > > Mario. > > > > > -- > Mario.
