This is probably a wierd question, but is there any possiblity of an OS X port for i386? That may be a good alternative workstation OS. I'd like to have a Linux workstation, but there's just too much software I use only available for Windows. Often there are Mac versions of stuff. Ideally, I would like a non-Microsoft OS that can run all my obscure Windows applications. What's happening with the Windows emulators for Linux these days?
Thanks, - Craig ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark C. Ballew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2003 2:14 AM Subject: Re: [RLUG] Microsoft says security is important I haven't heard the commercial, but Mac OS X is as vulnerable to viruses and worms as FreeBSD. OS X is based on the FreeBSD userland, so any bugs in system daemons are usually shared with OS X's BSD cusions. Of course, in the Linux/BSD world, we worry about buffer overflows, race conditions, and mis-configured software. Usually our mail clients don't run arbitrary executables and scripts as root like in Windows. And if they did in OS X, their damage would be typically limited to the local user account, as OS X doesn't run as root by default. One could argue that OS X isn't as large of target as Win32, but that is a big can of worms. Literal worms, not Microsoft worms. Mark _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
