Just had an idea. It's rare, but it does happen occasionally. The stated goal of the fink project is to bring Linux software to Mac OS X, right? Well, how about a new approach to that goal? How about making the Mac-On-Linux project work in reverse, Linux on Mac? Forgive my ignorance, but wouldn't be possible, albeit difficult, to modify the Mac-On-Linux source to use Aqua instead of Xfree86 and read from a disk image file instead of a physical disk? Why do that, you may ask? Because then you can bring ALL the Linux software to OS X at once and only have ONE application to update whenever Apple decides to radically change OS X as they apparently did in 10.2 and it would be MUCH faster than running Red-Hat, etc. in Virtual PC. I do understand that this would be difficult, but wouldn't it be less difficult than trying to maintain all the packages in the current Fink project?
Here's how I would like the finished project to work: "Linux-On-Mac" (calling it "Virtual Mac" would probably get you sued by Connectix, but L.O.M. or V-Mac might be O.K.) would use a native Aqua interface preferably (but using XDarwin would be O.K., too) and share I.P. w/ the "host" Mac. The user creates a Disk Copy image and tells L.O.M. to use it as a hard drive, inserts a Yellow-Dog, SuSe, Gentoo, etc. install CD into his/her drive, starts up the virtual machine, configures netatalk in the installed linux, turns on file sharing in host Mac, and VOILA! Now he/she can use Linux on Mac and transfer files between the OSes and everything! Opinions? Comments? Rude remarks? Anyone? ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
