Subject: RE: Hypothetical Question...
From: Derrik Pates (dpates@andromeda.dsdk12.net)
Date: Tue Dec 05 2000 - 08:05:02 MST
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 Stephen.Tate@astrazeneca.com wrote:
> Strange why would you want to run OSX on top of Linux !!!!!
Running MacOS and OS X apps on top of Linux. Same reason you'd want to run
MacOS on top of Linux.
> Why not try and run aqua ontop of linux!!! surely that will give the mac
> feel and the linux functionality and speed (many people have been saying
> that the system is slow - I agree - so why not give it some real guts
> underneath the pretty pictures.
My coworker said the same thing. Linux != BSD. OS X is build on top of a
BSD UNIX kernel, running on top of a Mach microkernel. It's of totally
different heritage than Linux, and it's got some (very different) command
line utilities. I still have a hard time at the OS X command prompt
because so many of the BSD tools are different from what's on Linux, and
I've really been brought up on Linux.
Also, you have issues of kernel interfaces and binary compatibility. It's
not as simple as you seem to believe it is.
> Isn't Mac OSX just a new interface ontop of a 'linux' system!!!
As I noted above, no.
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