Re: The Linux Hole - Mac OX

["Jerome Draper" <jdraper@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Why, why, why doesn't Steve Jobs port MacOX to Linux and run M$ out of town.
After all it already runs on the BSD flavor of Unix.  Sure he would lose out
on some hardware biz but at least we would have a choice....one I would take
instantly.  I hope I have already bought my last M$ piece of crapware.

Jerry

----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Klement <klemscot@klements.com>
To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:38 PM
Subject: Re: The Linux Hole


>
> There was one person who was running it on Mac OS X.  Under Darwin, I
> believe...
>
> Since it works on all the Unixes, it's easy enough to compile the source.
> The difficult part is the keyboard mapping.  Apparently you have to
> manually install the Linux terminfo settings under OS X, but it works...
>
>
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Mark Phippard wrote:
>
> > Scott,
> >
> > Do you know if they have done anything to port this to Mac OS X?
> >
> > Perhaps they should make it available under the Fink project.
> > http://fink.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Mark