I think you don't have much experience with *nix in general. A lot of free software is ported to many different OSes, Solaris, all the flavors of Linux, BSD, etc. Some programs remain firmly tied to one Linux distro, etc, and you have to port them yourself.
Your idea, while interesting academically, would just be a good way of making software run slower. On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Joel Hacker wrote: > > On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 09:59 AM, Viktor Haag wrote: > > If your emulator box goes down, then *all* of the Fink binaries > > become useless until I can get the emulator box up again. > > Good point, but it's a trade-off. Getting one app stable has got to be > an easier proposition than getting ALL of them stable. > > > I understand your point, but I think it's a more laudable goal to > > work to port all this wonderful open source software (albeit > > slowly) to run natively on the OS. > > I agree that having native Darwin apps is necessary and even noble, but > using Xfree86 on Mac OS X isn't really "native" anyway and it doesn't > have to be an "either/or" type proposition. Anyway it's just a > thought. I would like it, just wanted to see what others thought. -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSEE (6/86) + BSChem (3/95) + BAEnglish (8/95) + $2.50 = mocha latte ------------------------------------------------------- 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
