After checking out the Fink project at sourceforge.net I decided to asked my friend who wrote UltraScan for linux whether it might soon be possible to run his software 'directly' under OSX. (He is planning to make a commercial version for MacOSX users) He replied:
I don't think it is quite as easy as this - first, a linux version compiled for an Intel box will most certainly not run on a Mac, even though it is Unix, because of the byte ordering differences between Mac Motorola chips and Intel Pentium chips. Even if you compile Linux on Mac, the resulting binary *may* not be compatible with the *BSD style format used by OSX. So what you would need is a BSD distro for Mac (I don't know of one) and then you have a shot. I heard that Linux binaries will run under BSD, but have never tried that out. Any comments? Anyone know of a BSD distribution of linux for OSX? (Of course I reassured him that I am already indebted for his unwavering support and will certainly buy a copy when available.) --Michael ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
