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Date:      Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:23:01 -0600
From:      David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net>
To:        Chuck Remes <cremes.devlist@mac.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Lorin Lund <wbs@infowest.com>
Subject:   Re: MAC OS X connection to FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <20061114162301.GA8007@Grumpy.DynDNS.org>
In-Reply-To: <A26D610C-1DE2-4CD4-B286-8874CCDDB8DE@mac.com>
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:56:17PM -0600, Chuck Remes wrote:
> 
> Also, please recall I said "most software" and not 100% of software.
> I am certain there are outliers that don't compile cleanly on OSX,  
> but that hardly proves that OSX is not a good UNIX target. The vast  
> majority of software compiles and runs just fine on the latest OSX  
> release.

Can't say that I find compiling other's applications on MacOS X any
harder than on FreeBSD (without /usr/ports/ assistance). Only
disappointment has been trying to run FreeBSD-hosted X11 apps using
Apple's X11 server. Apple has updated a couple of times since I last
tried so this isn't an entirely fair comparison.

-- 
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.



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