From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 21 01:04:46 1994 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id BAA01535 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Dec 1994 01:04:46 GMT Received: from coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de (coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de [134.96.68.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA01518 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 1994 01:04:40 GMT Received: from localhost (ulim@localhost) by coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de (8.6.4/8.6.4) id XAA23127 for hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Dec 1994 23:52:44 +0100 From: Ulrich Mayring Message-Id: <199412192252.XAA23127@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de> Subject: OpenStep for FreeBSD? To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 23:52:44 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL22] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 876 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Hi folks, maybe it's a little early to ask yet, but anyway here goes: I heard yesterday that Sun, Dec and HP have licensed OpenStep, the GUI and API of NextStep, as far as I understand. This would mean that in one or two years Sun, Dec and HP workstations will look like the Next and all existing Next applications will run on these platforms. And with the three workstation-biggies behind it we can expect a lot of new software will be developped for OpenStep. So far, so commercial. But, reportedly, some guys from the FSF are working on a port of OpenStep for Linux and OpenStep seems to be looked upon by many as the successor to X. ("Unix functionality and Macintosh operability") I would be interested to hear comments about NextStep from any who have used it and if there will be a port for Linux, surely there must be one for FreeBSD as well? greetings, Ulrich