From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 3 11:23:05 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E21916A4CF for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2004 11:23:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mps5.plala.or.jp (c148240.vh.plala.or.jp [210.150.148.240]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 526DF43D5E for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2004 11:23:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e-kamo@trio.plala.or.jp) Received: from msvc1.plala.or.jp ([172.23.8.209]) by mps5.plala.or.jp with SMTP id <20040703112301.OVGL2494.mps5.plala.or.jp@msvc1.plala.or.jp> for ; Sat, 3 Jul 2004 20:23:01 +0900 Received: ( 3807 invoked from network); 3 Jul 2004 20:23:01 +0900 X-SVCK: Received: from unknown (HELO mpb1.plala.or.jp) (172.23.8.16) by msvc1 with SMTP; 3 Jul 2004 20:22:59 +0900 Received: from trio.plala.or.jp ([219.25.148.126]) by mpb1.plala.or.jp with ESMTP id <20040703112259.UGXU19716.mpb1.plala.or.jp@trio.plala.or.jp>; Sat, 3 Jul 2004 20:22:59 +0900 Message-ID: <40E69898.3040206@trio.plala.or.jp> Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 20:29:28 +0900 From: Eitarou Kamo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; ja-JP; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bruce Cran , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <40E1CAAD.3000303@minimum.se> <40E1CF00.2090601@netli.com> <1088557263.3528.102.camel@host-83-146-2-180.bulldogdsl.com> <72A1AE29-CA60-11D8-988E-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <9B616D82-CB28-11D8-9145-000D9335C6A0@yahoo.com.au> <40E40385.9030401@trio.plala.or.jp> <40E4BA4E.4060007@trio.plala.or.jp> <40E676EA.3080001@trio.plala.or.jp> <7E0F1AFE-CCDC-11D8-B2DB-000D93ACEE20@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <7E0F1AFE-CCDC-11D8-B2DB-000D93ACEE20@cran.org.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.8.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: FreeBSD and MacOS X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 11:23:05 -0000 Hi, Bruce Cran wrote: > > > No, Apple _does_ invest the money and time to create an x86 port: > http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/ > That is only the kernel and command-line utilities, there's no GUI > included. http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_xnu.html provides a > good overview of the kernel. Apple did have a port of MacOS X to x86 > (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/09/02/apples_x86_os_named_sized/), > I would guess they were waiting to see which CPU they were going to > use after the G3, since Motorola were being a little slow in making > faster PowerPC CPUs. They were considering switching to an Intel-based > line; in the end they went with IBM and their PPC970, so I would think > it's fairly unlikely we'll now ever see a version (of the GUI) for x86. > > -- > Bruce Cran As for GUI, no problem. Apple will be able to add X.org one or other one with their DeskTop on the kernel ASAP, I guess. Eitarou -- *********************** Eitarou Kamo Tel. +81 75 7035997 Fax +81 75 7035997 VoIP 050 10585997(domestic only) e-mail e-kamo@trio.plala.or.jp For business: Feel free to mail me(above), please. Donation http://www.PayPal.Com GPG FingerPrint: 032D FDF9 D27B 23F7 9A81 BF4C 626C FBAA BC3A 9895 ************************************************************************