On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 07:47 AM, Joel Hacker wrote:
> > On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 05:00 AM, Charlie Allom wrote: > >> The Fink project wants to bring the full world of Unix Open Source >> software to Darwin and Mac OS X. >> </quote> >> >> If you can't differentiate between the idea of UNIX as a set of tools >> and Linux as a kernel *with the same Open Source tools*, then I would >> suggest looking into exactly 'how hard' your suggestion may be. Show >> us the money! >> > So, would you mind telling me how it is that making a virtual machine > to run open-source software ISN'T bringing open source software to OS > X? Who actually cares if it's Unix or Linux, all the tools are > practically the same? Do you have an actual coherent argument against > this idea, or do you simply enjoy insulting people? > > As for how hard it would be, I do believe I DID concede that it would > be a difficult project, however, maintaining one application to run a > virtual machine cannot be as difficult as maintaining 1132 packages in > addition to the fink binaries themselves. Do you have an answer to > that, or are you too narrow-minded to conceive of the possibility that > a thought by someone who you so obviously despise might have the > tiniest bit of merit? The two problems that come to mind regarding the 10.1 --> 10.2 transition are the C++ ABI change, and the transition from zsh to bash for posix shell shell services. Both of these are caused not by incompatibilities in the kernel, but incompatibilities in the libraries. A virtual machine running linux would, not, in my opinion, resolve these issues. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
