Hi Fluffy :)
Thanks for your reply.
I assumed that FreeBSD was using the POSIX standard for portability and
compatibility. Didn't figure it could work with something like a translation
layer. I'm by no means knowledgeable to say a lot about this. Would probably
make more mistakes then anything else.
Second, MacOSX ... there's another possibility, may be also for windows. If one
creates a personality for MOX (nuclear fuel?) wouldn't it be possible for an
application developper to recompile for i386 and also port just the libraries
needed to make the app run on Linux ?
I don't know how heavily MOX relies on things like finder or the object
libraries they're using (cocoa?) so i'm just shooting in the dark really.
What do you say ?
Joris
ps : i've received your message twice. Once 2KB in size, once 4KB in size.
Since I'm usually posting/reading thru a newsreader so i wonder what's going
on. > i'm therefor no longer subscribed to any debian mailinglist < you have an
idea ?
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William T Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>On Sun, 19 Aug 2001, Lambrecht Joris wrote:
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>> Also, imho the "personality" thing is a grand idea on it's own. When
>> will Linux get such a feature. Imagine plugging in an OS personality
>
>It's been in the kernel since at least 2.0, maybe earlier. This is how
>Linux and FreeBSD can run each others' binaries.
>
>> on your linux kernel and running say MacOS X apps or even (urgh)
>> Windows 9x/NT apps ... unless i'm completely off center here ... enjoy
>
>The problem with Windows apps is that they require a lot of functionality
>in the OS that isn't part of the Linux kernel. For this see WINE. As for
>MacOS X, that's a little more interesting, because MacOS X is Unixy enough
>that this might be usable in case of Linux running on Apple hardware.
>(For x86 it would be no use unless Apple makes a MacOS X for that
>platform). However MacOS X is similar to Windows, there is a lot there
>that isn't anything like what the Linux kernel provides. You'd need
>something similar to WINE to handle all the graphics-related stuff and so
>on.
>
