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The reason you state is the biggest reason. Another reason is x86 are harder to program for than for Apple. Apple holds strict control over their hardware and thus can have solid drivers. If you only have one or two mobos to program for you can make it a solid system, much like IBM does. Once they go to x86, then they have to add additional drivers and handle any hardware configuration. -----Original Message----- From: Jerome Draper [mailto:jdraper@trilosoft.com] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 2:46 PM To: midrange-l@midrange.com Subject: Re: The Linux Hole - Mac OX 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 _______________________________________________ This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) mailing list To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l.
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