Re: [Xastir] New stable release out: xastir-2.0.4

2012-12-05 Thread David
Hi Curt.. tried to ./update-xastir ...i presume it may have done a update but under Help About it is coming up Xastir v2.0.3 Fri Nov 2 2012 which i believe is when i did the last update would i have to d/l the 2.0.4 tar file from sourceforge and compile from there 73 David VK4BDJ

Re: [Xastir] New stable release out: xastir-2.0.4

2012-12-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Chip Griffin wrote: OSX is based on FreeBSD, so your second to last statement is somewhat redundant. I thought it was based on real BSD, not FreeBSD. Not open-source Unix. They have to pay the license-holder of Unix for it. -- Curt, WE7U.http://wetnet.net/~we7u

Re: [Xastir] New stable release out: xastir-2.0.4

2012-12-05 Thread Jason Godfrey
The core of MacOS X is called Darwin, and is open source. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29 - Jason On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Chip Griffin wrote: OSX is based on FreeBSD, so your second to last

Re: [Xastir] New stable release out: xastir-2.0.4

2012-12-05 Thread Jeremy McDermond
On Dec 5, 2012, at 6:34 AM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Chip Griffin wrote: OSX is based on FreeBSD, so your second to last statement is somewhat redundant. I thought it was based on real BSD, not FreeBSD. Not open-source Unix. They have to pay the

Re: [Xastir] New stable release out: xastir-2.0.4

2012-12-05 Thread Chip Griffin
From Wikipedia (for what it's worth): OS X is based upon the Mach kernel. Certain parts from FreeBSD's and NetBSD's implementation of Unix were incorporated in NeXTSTEP, the core of Mac OS X. NeXTSTEP was the graphical, object-oriented, and UNIX-based operating system developed by Steve

Re: [Xastir] New stable release out: xastir-2.0.4

2012-12-05 Thread Jason KG4WSV
Regardless of the origin of the kernel, OS X is drastically different in terms of the support packages one can expect to find on a typical system. It _is_ in fact a different _operating_system_, whoever the original parents are. -Jason kg4wsv ___

Re: [Xastir] New stable release out: xastir-2.0.4

2012-12-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Jeremy McDermond wrote: On Dec 5, 2012, at 6:34 AM, Curt, WE7U curt.w...@gmail.com wrote: I thought it was based on real BSD, not FreeBSD. Not open-source Unix. They have to pay the license-holder of Unix for it. The NeXTSTEP kernel was originally a single server Mach

Re: [Xastir] New stable release out: xastir-2.0.4

2012-12-05 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 5 Dec 2012, Chip Griffin wrote: OS X is based upon the Mach kernel. Certain parts from FreeBSD's and NetBSD's implementation of Unix were incorporated in NeXTSTEP, the core of Mac OS X. NeXTSTEP was the graphical, object-oriented, and UNIX-based operating system developed by Steve