From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 5 00:55:30 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D35F16A4CE for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 00:55:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from prosporo.hedron.org (hedron.org [66.11.182.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD81143D54 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 00:55:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ean@hedron.org) Received: from hedron.org (unknown [192.168.89.1]) by prosporo.hedron.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5560C12C; Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:55:31 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 19:54:36 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v553) To: Dave Pesner From: Ean Kingston In-Reply-To: <962120f705030416355ad7c10b@mail.gmail.com> Message-Id: <257AB8CA-8D11-11D9-AE49-000A95D73348@hedron.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.553) cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: questions on file formats X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 00:55:30 -0000 On Friday, March 4, 2005, at 07:35 PM, Dave Pesner wrote: > Does FreeBSD support the .DMG file format? I need to know this > because I'm looking for a free alternative for an OS X emulator and a > liscensed copy of OS X(isn't open source software great) for my next > computer. If BSD does support OS X file formats such as DMG, great. I believe that a .dmg file is a virtual disk in a file (generally used to install software). Although FreeBSD does have equivalent things (virtual disks and software packaging) I don't think it supports .dmg files specifically. You should also know that FreeBSD is not going to run any software written for the Mac. There will be substitutes for most of the Mac software but you will probably find that some of the data file formats are proprietary to Apple and don't work anywhere else. That being said, there are a lot of file formats that can be manipulated by software available for FreeBSD. This would include .mp3, .avi, .txt, .rtf, .pdf, .jpg, .gif, ... > If not, please suggest a free UNIX based operating system that does, > and works with AMD64. You may want to look at the Darwin project. It is the open source project that was a spin off of OS X. It may support some of the file formats used by OS X but it isn't going to run any of the software that requires Aqua (the OS X GUI) since that isn't part of Darwin. Also, I have no idea what platforms Darwin supports.