Re: The Linux Hole - Mac OX -- MIDRANGE-L

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Because Apple wants to make money, and feels their hardware is superior
to x86 architecture.

What makes you think that MacOS would run Windows out of town?   I don't
think people buy PCs instead of Macs because they like the x86
architechture better!

With BSD running on Mac, you should be able to run any software that's
currently available for Linux with only a very few exceptions.  I consider
myself a BSD person (FreeBSD) and I have yet to find a Linux program that
I couldn't make run on FreeBSD.

MacOS X is based on FreeBSD, and one of the founders of the FreeBSD
project (Jordan Hubbard) is one of the chief people responsible for
the Darwin project.

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Jerome Draper wrote:

> 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

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