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Running Mac OS X Binaries With NetBSD
An anonymous reader writes "KernelTrap has an interesting article about an effort to add a Mach and Darwin binary compatibility layer to NetBSD. The project has evidently already made a fair amount of progress, currently working to stabilize the WindowServer emulation portion that will then allow NetBSD to run Mac OS X graphical applications."
It's only the NetBSD/powerpc port. The biggest problem with MacOSX is that it only runs on Macs. If I'm going to pay all that money for a shiny new Mac, I'm going to run Apple's shiny new operating system.
Someone stole my old sig.
But one question: is there anything Apple can do to stop this?
If you remember, they've been *very* anal in the past about some things they consider to be "their stuff", such as the look and feel of the OS. I can't see them just sitting around and watching while all their OS capabilities are matched (or, for that matter, exceeded).
If they sent C&D letters for freakin' themes, I doubt they'll just sit around while their API is emulated. They've show themselves to be rather devious, and I'd be a little worried if I was a NetBSD developer.
Dragging people kicking and screaming into reality since 1996.
A question..
..it will not harm you!
The status report link is from 1/2002...
Did anybody bother to read it before posting?
70 people so far did not..
The actual project ot watch is not NetBSd..in that they don't have the nice Apple relationship like Darwin does..
In fact if my memory is right the proejct was stopped because they were duplicating Darwin's efforts..
To see if MacOSx will run under intel machines check Darwin porject site not NetBSD!
Come on People read once in awhile
Show yourself to better than those wintel geeks who don't even read but jsut spout what MS Gates wants..
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