On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:08:52AM -0400, Joel Hacker wrote: > > On Thursday, September 26, 2002, at 08:42 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > >Here's another question: what fraction of all of the open source > >applications out there have been ported to run on a Mac under Linux? > > To the best of my knowledge, just about everything. Yellow Dog is a > Linux Distro specifically for Macs. I use it now and it seems pretty > complete (can't get wireless working right in it though. I managed > their special instructions for the 800mhz TiBooks video just fine but > can't get the airport working). SuSe has a version for PowerPC with > better set-up options than Yellow Dog but lacking support for my video > on my main machine. Gentoo also has a PowerPC version, but I haven't > tried it. There may be others.
I feel that what you are suggesting is that groups like the NetBSD project should run a Linux VM so they don't have to have ports/pkgsrc? Linux is not the be all and end all. Long live ideas like fink that allow us to run our choice of applications on our choice of operating system. Apple's Darwin is in no different situation than say, NetBSD/macppc. *blank stare* This brings up another thought though - how long can fink last with this flat namespace for packages etc etc. There are a few simple design flaws in the growth of fink. Dependancies are a bit awkward etc. I remember Jordan Hubbard talking of his 'new' ideas of ports collections. Jordan are you here? C. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://rubberduck.com/yeled/pgp.txt ------------------------------------------------------- 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
