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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