On Wed, 2002-01-09 at 12:15, Jim Beard wrote: > I believe so, it's just a second tree for binaries and libs and man > pages.
yeah, /opt, if i remember my FHS correctly, is supposed to be "optional" software and when i install, say, OpenSSH, it likes to go into /opt with it's own little tree. most linux software doesn't seem to care or look for /opt. > Now that I think about it, apple does package some of there software in > non-standard directories. Mainly to allow for mac folk who don't know > unix to be comfortable, but only mac software will use this structure, > and most all mac packages are super self contained, so you don't have to > worry about library dependencies etc.. i thought so. it's good that they make the distinction between the two 'types' of software. that's probably what was confrusing me. there was a "System" for gawd's sake! > around with different *nix windows managers. I just tried AfterStep a > little bit, it was kinda cool :) so theoretically you can use sawfish and gnome on OS X? awesome. gotta go knock off a couple of convenience stores so's i can buy a mac... > Humm... It is heavily influenced by some of the NeXT operating > systems. It's system (as I understand it) is basically a merging of > mach and Free/Net BSDs. The biggest difference that I've heard rumor of > is the way that they are handling their shared libraries. Basically it > seems like they haven't yet decided how to handle them, and so sometimes > you find them here, some times there... that's probably because Jobs is such a "do it my way" kind of guy (well, that's what i read of him...) apparently, when he came back to apple he just sort of took over, an unofficial 'coup' if you will. i think the project i was refering to was ongoing when Jobs was away doing NeXT. around the time the iMac showed up (when Jobs came back), it just disappeared. now my boss tells me it's coming back in the news, but even she can't remember than name. AAAARRRRRRGGGHHH! thanks anyway. :) > I used macs back when I was in high school, but I haven't even really > touched one since mac os 7.2 or so. But os X has converted me back. same here. i've done a _little_ tech support in OS 8, but that's as far as i've gone. if i could afford one, i'd love to get a newer Mac, but right now i'm stuck with what i have. i suppose i could grunge around for or build some really spiffy looking case, install OpenBSD and pretend i have a mac...
