> It isn't clear how planting a virtual machine version of the Linux > kernel > above Darwin and below the Linux/Unix/BSD/POSIX toolkit that already > runs > natively on Darwin is going to help anything. You see? >
It wouldn't help the user, not directly anyway. I mainly think this would be a good idea for the maintainers. Having only ONE app to maintain, and that ONE app making it possible to run ALL the open-source software on a Mac without having to reboot. Get it? As for speed, it wouldn't be much slower, M.O.L. creates a virtual machine and emulates hardware, but it doesn't have to do instruction translation like Virtual PC, it is for running RISC software on a RISC chip. It DOES run slower than the native OS, but not by very much. Unfortunately it would be worthless to those running Darwin on x86 machines. Guess the whole idea wasn't so great after all. That's what I get for having "brainstorms" after being awake for 84 hours straight. Still, it would be a VERY nice thing for Mac users. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
