Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:22:45 -0800 From: Wilfredo Sanchez <wsanchez@apple.com> To: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com>, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, julian@whistle.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apple's Open Source Projects Message-ID: <199903260422.UAA16038@scv3.apple.com>
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Matthew: | Or give FreeBSD the ability to run OS X binaries in a power-pc port. That | would be very useful. I would, today, run out and buy OS X ( software ) if | I could run it on a FreeBSD box. Then I could run Apple apps. You need a lot more than binary compatibility. You'll need all the the dynamic libraries which come with the OS, most of which are not free, and you'll need to emulate and provide the Mach API to userland. The Mac OS 8 "blue box" is a whole other matter. Julian: | I'm even tempted to see what it would take to add a FreeBSD | compatibility to it.. That may not be as hard; we've tried not to exclude that possbility in the past. Probably not real easy, though. Certainly, we'd be interested in adding that sort of thing to Darwin. Luoqi: | I doubt you could run mac apps, mostly likely the mac os is another server | parallel to the BSD server and you need the mach microkernel for that. We aren't running co-located servers. That's bloody slow. The kernel is monolithic. Mach isn't very "micro," anyway. -Fred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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