Quoting Holden Hao ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Well what I'd like to know is if Apple can easily port their GUI > desktop into Linux (That is if they really wanted to).
Sure. Or they can offer Quartz (the Display PDF-based graphics engine), their print subsystem, their audio-video software, etc. on more CPU platforms than just PPC. The underlying open-source foundation, the Apple Darwin BSD system, is more-or-less functional on i386, with the only real problem being a rather narrow hardware compatibility list. But I'm not clear on why another proprietary-software ghetto would be of interest, just because it's offered on Linux. > My interest stems from the unlimited rants on the Internet about the > useability of Linux. OS-advocacy rants have been part of the background noise of the Internet for decades. > I was thinking if the GUI of something like Mac OS X is available for > Linux then that would seal the deal for Linux on the desktop. If all you want is a proprietary Unix with a Display PDF engine, you can use OS X, and don't have to lobby for it to be re-done with a Linux foundation instead of BSD. But it strikes me as a lot more sensible to hope for rapid development of the GNUstep environment, if you for some reason particularly like Display PDF. -- Cheers, "By reading this sentence, you agree to be bound by the Rick Moen terms of the Internet Protocol, version 4, or, at your [EMAIL PROTECTED] option, any later version." -- Seth David Schoen _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
