Dima Shcherban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Questions: > > 1. Are there any real differences bertween that MAC version of UNIX with > conventional UNIXes, which we are accustom to?
I've been running it since last April. It's a decent Unix system under the hood. The GUI environment is essentially a Display PDF environment that doesn't support X out of the box; however, there's a decent port of XFree86 4.2.x that works great, and has an option to run "rootless" so the X windows can coexist with the MacOS windows. Basically the rootless mode means there's no root window for the window manager to work with. > 2. Is underlying UNIX usable by itself, or not? Yes, it works quite well. > 3. Is it possible to build any third party software of this UNIX. How > about X? Yes, I've built a number of packages successfully. All the standard BSD development tools are there, along with gcc 2.95.2. Also, there's an add-on called "fink" that's basically a stripped-down Debian package manager along with all the traditional GNU tools. > 4. Is it setup simillar to NeXT, previous attempt of "Macintosh UNIX"? > > I would appreciate any pointers. Yes; it still uses a bunch of NeXT tools like the IB and the Mailtool, and the networking still has NetInfo underneath. I haven't looked at the NetInfo parts recently, but when I first installed the system about a year ago, it looked like NetInfo was client-only, and wouldn't act as a NetInfo server. The rest of my network is all Linux and Solaris, so I didn't bother messing around with NetInfo past my initial exploration of the system. There's one thing I still find mildly annoying: I've always preferred the FocusFollowsMouse behavior in X, and MacOSX is strictly ClickToFocus. But that's a pretty minor thing. -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99
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