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Re: OS X Games



On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 10:31:34AM -0500, sean finney wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 02:32:21PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > They're not sufficiently similar for that to work, no. Apart from
> > anything else, unless you're running Linux on PowerPC then it's a
> > different processor architecture. Also, while MacOS X under the hood is
> > similar to Linux in that it's a Unix-like operating system, it's a
> > different Unix-like operating system, essentially BSD.
> 
> that leads me to wonder if it would work on a NetBSD or FreeBSD box....

I suspect that's unlikely. The BSDs aren't in general binary-compatible
with each other: for example, they have different libc versions. MacOS X
appears to have a completely different shared library architecture to
the other BSDs.

-- 
Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]



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