Freshmeat Launches Mac OS X Section

Liedra writes "After announcing Mac OS X software surreptitiously within its main section for the past several months, freshmeat has now launched a section totally devoted to the platform. Read the article by scoop and visit the section directly." Since I switched my primary laptop to OS X, I'm glad to see scoop do this. (Note, Freshmeat & Slashdot are both owned by OSDN.)

Comments

Re:OSDN ripening for Apple?

[happystink]

That's crazy though, they could try all they want but unless the people in charge at OSDN are brain-dead they know that Apple would never ever buy a content website/business, much less one 90% about open source. People might think /. et. al are kissing up to Apple to be bought, but in truth they're just kissing up to the general Apple fetish around here for hits. Apple doesn't buy companies often (noone does anymore) and when they do it's extremely strategic, not a matter of "aww look, some kids put apple logos all over and list OS X software after a year of ignoring it. Let's snatch them up!".

Re:Platform favouritism

[TellarHK]

All OSX really is involves an updating of NextStep (for good or ill), and a replacement of X11 with something more bulletproof using interface guidelines. Was NextStep *nix? Nobody I know disputes it. Why're you disputing OSX? Because it's proprietary? That horse has been beaten to death, and nobody hammers on SGI or Sun for proprietary OS'es. Is it because of Aqua being closed source? Okay, so compile (or download the binary for) Xdarwin and use regular X apps. Of course there you have to worry about dependencies, and libraries for GTK, window managers...

I hope more people re-engineer X11 apps with a Cocoa frontend. Or, perhaps someone ought to start a project similar to WINE, but for the Cocoa API? Just don't put the look and feel in exact, and do it for interoperability... who knows, maybe you can slip under Apple's legal radar.

Or not. Bleah.