On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 07:27:48 -0700 John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The *really* hot machine is going to be the OSX ABI supported under > > FreeBSD and running Aqua. I betcha this happens FAST. > > I doubt it would be fast at all if it even happens. Unlike Linux, > svr4, and ibcs2, OS X is not just a POSIXish UNIX kernel. It also > includes mach so there would have to be a lot of emulation to support > that. OS X also tends to define its interface not at the kernel > syscall level but at the library API level (from what I have heard), > which means that it might require having custom versions of the base > system frameworks ala Wine which would be an enormous amount of work. The NetBSD people are working on it: http://hcpnet.free.fr/applebsd.html Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1
pgpiRVdwBmfC5.pgp
Description: PGP signature
