hmmm. I missed his "almost" quip there. THats the big problem, Almost never is. I have run into problems with that word when it comes to OS X versus Linux. Its those little differences that can break a compile.
-eric On Jul 12, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Michael Butash wrote: > Differing windowing api's mostly. Same reason gtk apps work oddly under > kde(qt), vise-versa, and java gui features don't work right on anything ever. > > Anything hardware accelerated graphic-wise use totally different driver sets > and gpu stuff too, compositing functions for enhanced gui features (make > pretty transparencies), things like that differ extensively with their > kernels. Same as directx based games never work right under wine, you can > only emulate some things so much by reverse engineering and fuzzing. > > They're just building yet another walled garden like everyone, pick your > religion. Sort of why webapps are the last frontier, it shouldn't matter at > that point what garden you reside in (but still does). > > -mb > > > On 07/11/2015 01:32 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >> Here is a good question. WHy doesn't their software work on Linux/GNU? They >> are the same (almost). >> >> -- >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - >> [email protected] >> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
