From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Mar 18 18:34:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from server1.cyberix.com (server1.cyberix.com [207.106.53.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E7714BDD for ; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 18:34:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brad@cyberix.com) Received: from BillyJoeBob (max1-ppp-8.cyberix.com [207.106.53.187]) by server1.cyberix.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA04335; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:28:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Brad Benson" To: "Malartre" Cc: Subject: RE: Netscape browser Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:32:41 -0500 Message-ID: <000201be71b0$c321af20$6400a8c0@BillyJoeBob> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-reply-to: <36F19986.A33178F@aei.ca> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'd like to know, if they support it for *BSD, will it work on the MacOS > X and vice versa? How much compatibility is there (or do you expect) > between MacOS X and FreeBSD? > I'm not a programmer :-) > Thank You From everything I read, it seems that the only real *BSD part of MacOS X is the userland. The kernel is Mach based and The GUI is not X windows. I'm not sure how it works, but they have developed there own GUI. Apple basically went out and took a dab from here and a dab from there to come up with something new. I'm under the impression that most *unix apps will compile under OSX, but I doubt seriously anything from FreeBSD could be run from a binary on OSX. I also wonder what would be involved in porting GUI X-windows apps to OSX's new GUI. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message