From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 29 18:42:42 2003 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 587E237B401 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:42:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (hobbiton.shire.net [206.71.64.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA3D243F75 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:42:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.161.247.57] (helo=shire.net) by hobbiton.shire.net with asmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.10) id 19hfzE-000Pvw-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:42:40 -0600 Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:42:09 -0600 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) From: Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Message-Id: <086672B2-C22F-11D7-ADBF-0003931BED80@shire.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.0 required=5.4 tests=BAYES_10,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_APPLEMAIL version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: Re: FreeBSD and OSX applications 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: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:42:42 -0000 On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 07:33 PM, Rod Person wrote: > Today I went to an Adobe seminar. All demos where done on OS X. I kept > think that it looked a lot like KDE and of course I got to thinking... > > Can applications such as Acrobat and Illustrator run on FreeBSD? Of course, there is the problem of CPUs. FreeBSD is x86 (and alpha) (for now) and OS X is a PPC processor. So besides all the libraries and stuff like Quartz that you would need to emulate, you would need to emulate the CPU Chad also an OSX client/FreeBSD server user