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["David R. Matusiak" <matusiak AT speakeasy.net>]

just to push the envelope a little further, wouldn't OSX (a mach kernel 
derived 
BSD variant) have a COMPAT mode for linux and other unices? for the 
uninitiated, 
COMPAT means 'compatibility' and this special feature allows folks who manage 
one type of system to take advantage of all the wonderful software out there. 

you see, by telling your kernel to run certain software in COMPAT mode, you 
can 
run that software on a kernel (or architecture) that is was never intended to 
 
be run on. isn't that just grand?

i know solaris now has LINUX_COMPAT mode, as do others. so, there!

...and this has nothing to do with "Where to take a wireless laptop."
poor, poor Wiggum.
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On 28 Aug 2002, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-08-28 at 12:33, Steven Champeon wrote:
> 
> > Um, no. 'fink' is just a version of the debian apt system. The apps
> > you've seen are X apps, probably running under OroborOSX or something,
> > not Linux apps. OS X is a BSD-derived system, not a Linux system.
> 
> Well, it depends on what you mean by "Linux apps".  I believe Josep
> was using it in a generic term to mean apps that originally came
> from linux.  Fink definitely does provide that.
> 
> Oh, also, fink is not just a version of the debian apt system.
> Yes, it uses the .deb binary package format but it's backend 
> is something more akin to rpm spec files.  Fink itself, however,
> is better described as a source distribution.  Yes, it's version
> of KDE is running using an X server, but they are native OSX (but
> not Aqua) apps.  Ben Reed, who happens to be a coworker of mine
> and a member of TriLUG (but not INW), is the KDE OSX maintainer
> and explained all this to me (because I unfortunately don't have
> a mac).
> 
> Tanner
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