[clug] Linux/UNIX laptop?
Martin Pool
mbp at sourcefrog.net
Tue Jan 4 23:32:20 GMT 2005
On 5 Jan 2005, Alex Satrapa <grail at goldweb.com.au> wrote:
> On 28 Dec 2004, at 00:33, blazs at netspeed.com.au wrote:
>
> >Quoting Pearl <pearl.louis at anu.edu.au>:
> >
> >>do Macs run Linux programs?
>
> Only Linux runs Linux programs.
Many Linux binaries will run unmodified on other Unixes that can
emulate Linux syscalls, including (iirc) hpux, aix, solaris, bsd and
sco (ha ha sco). I don't think osx can do this, but of course you can
recompile things.
You are more likely to run into problems with programs that use
Linux-specific interfaces. I am told the sound interfaces are very
different, so many audio programs won't work.
OS X has X11, but it's not the native desktop API and so there is a
gap between Linux and OS X programs.
--
Martin
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