[lbo-talk] Re: JDK runs on FreeBSD

jimi ayler jimi_ayler at yahoo.com
Mon Oct 25 08:00:57 PDT 2004


sorry i'm late to the party -- and, really, listserv-ing on the weekends doesn't sound like my idea of a party -- but, if i'm not mistaken, isn't the mach kernel in os x based on freebsd? wasn't that the reason why linus torvalds called os x, and its components, "crap"?

and, isn't java 1.4.2 available for os x now? isn't that good enough, you, you...open-source-erers? maybe i lost the original thread...

i have a dual boot g4 that i rarely boot into os x, primarily because most of the software i use (max/msp, most especially) is all os 9.x, and i'm broke, so can't quite upgrade in the near term. this, quite apart from being a "computer-interactive" musician and artist, while being tempermentally a monkey-wrenching luddite...

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