From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 17 9: 0:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.ms-agentur.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7953337B401 for ; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:00:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.ms-agentur.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id SAA07183; Mon, 17 Sep 2001 18:09:52 +0200 Message-ID: <3BA61E18.6040806@i-clue.de> Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 18:00:24 +0200 From: Christoph Sold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:0.9.4+) Gecko/20010916 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Darwin and FreeBSD References: <200109171537.f8HFbp306217@javalina.csf.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Adam wrote: >I think i read somewhere that mac ox X's darwin was based off of FreeBSD 3.2 >(correct me if I'm wrong). And companies like adobe and macromedia are working >over their respective programs to make them run under native os x. I was >wondering then what are the chances of being able to port those apps to freeBSD? > >Could we see the Adobe suite and the Macromedia suite avaiable for FreeBSD? > Chances are slim, as in fact Mac OS X is based on Darwin, which in turn is based on a Mach kernel, a FreeBSD 3.2 userland, without X11. The Macintosh user interface ("Aqua") is not available for any other operating system, but will be needed to have Adobe, Macromedia, Quark et. al. to port their applications to Free/Open/NetBSD. Just my EUR.02 -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message