| From: | Rafael Vicar�a Alloza |
| Date: | 23 Sep 2000 at 15:25:43 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Amiga on NetBSD? |
Hello Juan,
On Friday, 22-Sep-00, 08:29:56,
<open@amiga.com> wrote about:
Re: AMIOPEN: Amiga on NetBSD?:
> From: Rafael Vicar�a Alloza <rafael.vicaria@ibm.net>
> [snipped lots of great info]
B-)
>>> this discussion is getting sidetracked and has nothing to
>>> do with the list anymore...
>> I agree entirely, but I had to get all this off my chest...
>> Hopefully it wasn't very boring... B-)
> No way, I think this issue is important. That BSD family of UNIXes
> lloks like an important base for Amiga to reach the server market.
> It's a place where people don't see you, but there are the big
> players.
Absolutely! Where does the latest and greatest crApple OS X come from?
4.3BSD!!! (Well, only Darwin, the open-source part of it, if I'm not
mistaken)
IMHO, it is amazing that crApple, after the Copeland (OS 8) disaster,
Gil Amelio tried to buy BeOS, it didn't work and then he went to NeXT and
bought it for 400 million $. Did he get the NeXT OS? No. Steve Jobs took
over his job... <g>
Oooops, I'm off topic again! Sorry.
> By the way, why don't Linux programs run on BSDs?
They do, linux binaries, as long as you have the linux emulation libraries installed.
> I thought
> that, being of the same X breed, porting was very easy.
It's just Xwindow. All the Linux and *BSD use Xfree86, AFAIK.
The kernels, daemons cli tools etc. runing below are different.
> Is the API
> very different? At which layers?
I'm beyond the border of my knowledge now...
Thank you very much for your kind comments
Best regards
---Rafa
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