Re: MacOS X is not Linux!

[Paul Johnson]

Bill Northcott wrote:

> Inevitably people are coming to MacOS X and trying to use it like Linux. 
> It is not Linux.  It is a species of UNIX like Tru64, HP-UX, AIX Solaris 
> or what ever.  

I thought it was their fork of BSD.?
> That 
> is why we need eventually to port to GNUstep.  so we can use AppKit.
> Enter Frameworks.  

I don't know as much about GNUstep as I would like.  I have thought of 
using it for the collections and graphics libraries.  I don't know 
anything about the stuff you describe or how it would affect me.

Just wanted to say I think the Mac OSX effort here is really inspiring 
and I'm delighted with the accomplishment.



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