Hi Christian, I'll give your suggested link changes a try later this week. The fink stuff is really ultra neat...I have a gnome desktop with sawfish window manager (with top and bottom bars AND multiple workspaces), together with my favorite opensource programs (gimp,xemacs) with Mac OSX + OS9 programs available from a pop-up menu. Now, if only we can get brat ... ...steve On Wednesday, August 28, 2002, at 03:36 PM, Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > Hi Steve, > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 22:14:45 +0200 > Christian Holm Christensen <cholm@hehi03.nbi.dk> wrote > concerning "Re: Mac OSX and Brat": >> Hi Steve, >> >>> OSX porting notes on the fink.sourceforge.net site: > > Whoops, missed that one. Ok, I got it. Hey cool: they use Debian as > thier base. That's nice - then you're sure the stuff is pretty stable. > So now we have > > Debian GNU/Linux <- Monolithic kernel > Debian GNU/Hurd <- A microkernel - GNU Mach + translators > Debian GNU/FreeBSD <- A microkernel? Defently a BSD :-) > Debian GNU/NetBSD <- A microkernel? Defently a BSD :-) > Debian GNU/VMS <- Well, there's a rumour at least. > Debian GNU/MacOS <- BSD on a Mach micro kernel, but called Fink > > Beat that Red Hat, SuSE, TurbuLinux, Slackware, Mandrake, ... > And the best thing about Debian: There's no company selling you > yibbayaba, and it's what all the pro's use :-) > > Oh, and it seems that Libtool does support upto MacOS 10.1 > at least. Nice. I like that Fink project (must have read about it in > DWN at some point, but have forgotton). Now, if we can get Apple to > open the souce code, we can really get a true `Debian > GNU/Mac'. Wouldn't that be cool. > > (oh, and I forgot this too :-) > > Yours, > > ____ | Christian Holm Christensen > |_| | ------------------------------------------------------------- > | | Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 > _| DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 24 61 85 91 > _| Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 305 > ____| Email: cholm@nbi.dk Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm > | |
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