Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

2008-11-24 Thread Braulio José Solano Rojas
Hi! On Mon, 24 de Noviembre de 2008, 12:19 am, Jiawei Ye wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- So while a Darwin (the OS underneath OSX) ABI would be possible - though it's not clear how painful because it's not clear how visible the MACH APIs

Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

2008-11-23 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, On 22 Nov 2008, at 11:00, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Since the underlying OS of Mac OS is FreeBSD I'm wondering whether itr is possible to mount a .dmg file as it is used in Apple software distribution for the Mac OS. I would like to install an Apple iPhone configuration utility on my

Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

2008-11-23 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Erik Trulsson wrote: Which version of FreeBSD was used in OSX will almost certainly depend on which version of MacOS X you look at. It is quite possible that the latest version of OSX uses code from FreeBSD 5.x, but I guarantee that the first release of OSX did not.

Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

2008-11-23 Thread Braulio José Solano Rojas
On Sun, 23 de Noviembre de 2008, 5:22 am, Bob Bishop wrote: On 22 Nov 2008, at 11:00, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Since the underlying OS of Mac OS is FreeBSD I'm wondering whether itr is possible to mount a .dmg file as it is used in Apple software distribution for the Mac OS. I would like to

Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

2008-11-23 Thread Mike Meyer
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:15:54 -0600 (CST) Braulio José Solano Rojas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an innocent question. I have read on the handbook and the thesis about the Linux ABI technical explanations that lead me to think that it could be possible to run Mac OS binaries on FreeBSD. I

Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

2008-11-23 Thread Jiawei Ye
On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- So while a Darwin (the OS underneath OSX) ABI would be possible - though it's not clear how painful because it's not clear how visible the MACH APIs are - it's not clear how useful it would be by itself. You could

mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

2008-11-22 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Since the underlying OS of Mac OS is FreeBSD I'm wondering whether itr is possible to mount a .dmg file as it is used in Apple software distribution for the Mac OS. I would like to install an Apple iPhone configuration utility on my FreeBSD box (iPhoneConfigurationUtility.dmg). It consists of a

Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

2008-11-22 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 11/22/08, Christoph Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the underlying OS of Mac OS is FreeBSD Wrong. I'm wondering whether itr is possible to mount a .dmg file as it is used in Apple software distribution for the Mac OS. I would like to install an Apple iPhone configuration utility

Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

2008-11-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Christoph Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since the underlying OS of Mac OS is FreeBSD It isn't, as someone else pointed out, and hence... I'm wondering whether itr is possible to mount a .dmg file as it is used in Apple software distribution for the Mac OS. I would like to install an

Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

2008-11-22 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Dag-Erling Smørgrav schrieb: Christoph Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since the underlying OS of Mac OS is FreeBSD It isn't, as someone else pointed out, and hence... Always thought that at some point in time it was derived from an earlier version of FreeBSD (4.x) I'm

Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

2008-11-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 03:01:44PM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Dag-Erling Smørgrav schrieb: Christoph Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since the underlying OS of Mac OS is FreeBSD It isn't, as someone else pointed out, and hence... Always thought that at some

Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

2008-11-22 Thread Achim Patzner
Am 22.11.2008 um 15:01 schrieb Christoph Kukulies: I would like to install an Apple iPhone configuration utility on my FreeBSD box (iPhoneConfigurationUtility.dmg). ...Mac OS applications won't run on FreeBSD, so there's no point in even trying. It may be some java stuff. It is not. It's a

Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

2008-11-22 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Parts of it was derived from FreeBSD (mainly userland stuff.) Other parts of MacOS X (including the kernel) was mainly derived from Mach, and some parts were of course written by Apple themselves (or taken from other places.) You got it almost entirely

Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

2008-11-22 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Christoph Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the underlying OS of Mac OS is FreeBSD I'm wondering whether itr is possible to mount a .dmg file as it is used in Apple software distribution for the Mac OS. I would like to install an Apple iPhone

Re: mounting Mac OS .dmg files?

2008-11-22 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 02:06:39PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Christoph Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the underlying OS of Mac OS is FreeBSD I'm wondering whether itr is possible to mount a .dmg file as it is used in Apple software distribution