On 27Dec2007 10:52, Roy Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| OS/X and Linux share common roots, but OS/X is a proprietary OS. Linux
| is open source. Linux does not run either OS/X or windows programs
| natively. [...]

They're both UNIX. Many programs will compile on both. Indeed, the
MacPorts stuff is little more than a bazillion UNIX programs recompiled
for the Mac. You need the program source (or a macports install), but
many many apps are available for both.
-- 
Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DoD#743
http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/

| I'm the female partner of a climber (I don't climb) and until now, I was
| under the impression that climbers are cool people, but alas, you had to
| ruin it for me.
*REAL* climbers are crude, impolite, solitary, abrupt, arrogant.  Sport
climbers are cool.
        - Rene Tio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in rec.climbing


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