Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 09:33:46 -0400 From: a brody <abrody@smart.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: I would like to add Message-ID: <a05100e03b736ae32c826@[192.168.123.179]>
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Dear FreeBSD, I took a FreeBSD version of Linklint and did a Make on the file on the command-line interface of Mac OS X (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal in Mac OS X opens the CLI). It compiled without a problem. And it works. It goes to show that you can take FreeBSD applications and put them on Mac OS X. If that's the case, who cares what the kernal is, FreeBSD is still there. Granted the compiled application only works in the Command-line interface. But there are also free ports of XWindows such as XFree86 (http://xfree86.org/), and two XWindows applications are already slated for Mac OS X, namely GIMP (http://www.macgimp.org/) and and Grass (http://SierraMaps.com/grass/). Macs have come a long way since 1997. Anyone who hasn't been using Macs since 1997, really shouldn't let their anti-mac bias get to them (if they have any such bias). Macs practically started the support for USB, IEEE 1394, 802.11b,(wireless), and they currently support SVGA, have ATA/IDE drives, and PCI ports. There is practically nothing you can't do on a Mac that you can do on a PC. So please list Mac OS X somewhere on your pages. If Whistler, a project I barely heard about is a commercial project based on FreeBSD is on your site, so should Mac OS X be. I mean Apple is having us pay $129 for Mac OS X, and the software is giving the FreeBSD project exposure to the real consumer world. Is there anything wrong about acknowledging it at least? Thank you. Sincerely, abrody@smart.net -- Check my internet portal of over 1000 links verified monthly, over 200 Macintosh, and over 200 Cartography, GIS, and Mapping links. http://www.index-site.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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