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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:03:21 +0200
From:      Achim Patzner <ap@bnc.net>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mx@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: running MacOS-X i386 binaries on FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <A546118C-A4CB-483E-82E3-CCC92E93A716@bnc.net>
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Am 15.06.2006 um 07:21 schrieb Mikhail Teterin:
> Interesting. So it is not an X application... Can't the MacOS GUI  
> libraries be
> ported, though?

No. You would have to rewrite them in a clean room and avoid patented  
technologies Apple has been using to implement them.

> Or do they require kernel support, that is only available from  
> MacOS-X kernel
> (and not Darwin)?

Darwin _is_ Mac OS X's kernel. And yes, even Darwin contains some  
nice bag of tricks you wouldn't even get past FreeBSD's security  
officer.


Achim



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