On 26 October 2014 11:19, Asiga Nael <[email protected]> wrote: > > Isn't there any OS that considers GNUStep as the most important part of the > OS while supporting the 3 features that I love from OSX (app bundles, > dmg-like support, fat binaries)? > > If such OS exists, please tell, as it would be my natural move from OSX.
Sadly, no, it does not exist. Never has. There is a FOSS project called Étoilé but they do not observe the FOSS mantra of "release early, release often" -- in fact I don't think they have ever made an official release, and there's not been a binary snapshot in a decade or so. I have long meant to, and done some preliminary fiddling and testing towards making, a metadistro of Ubuntu LTS + GNUstep, but I don't really have the skills. However, this would still have the deep nastiness of a normal Linux filesystem underneath. There is a Linux which fixes this, called GoboLinux -- but there's no GNUstep release for it and I lack the skills. At present, and for the foreseeable, GNUstep is a programmer's toolkit, which it happens to be possible to compile and run as a partial, slightly flakey, somewhat feature-poor desktop environment. It is not a "full" desktop, it's weirdly nonstandard in many ways that you wouldn't expect in 21st century software (but then, it's a clone of NeXTstep, and NeXTstep was 1980s software) and no Linux distro incorporates it as a desktop -- not even partially and incompletely. It's sad. If there were, the project would get a lot more attention. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: [email protected] • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: [email protected] • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR) _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
