Re: reincarnating nextstep

[Graham J Lee]

Chris B. Vetter wrote:
> On 11/18/05, Rogelio M. Serrano Jr. <rogelio@smsglobal.net> wrote:
> [...]
>
> > Thats ok im not planning on world domination. That looks like a good plan 
> > though.
> > The installer is not a big issue for me. The distro im building is designed for 
> > gnustep.
>
>
> Not intending to troll here, or start another OS-related flame-war,
> but why base it on Linux?
>
> I guess this is more of a general question, but why not focus on a
> more 'original' clone and base it on Darwin? There are a couple of
> aspects, that IMHO would make Darwin the more obvious choice, its MACH
> kernel for one thing. Yes, I know there are reported problems with
> running GNUstep on Darwin, but those could be overcome if there's
> enough focus on fixing them.

I think that to make GNUstep on Darwin realistically maintainable as an 
OS release, either GNUstep would need to work with Apple's gcc or Darwin 
would need to work with FSF's gcc - I don't know if either is true. 
Also, to make a "true" NEXTSTEP-a-like you'd need a display postscript 
system...

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Graham Lee
UNIX Systems Manager,
Oxford Physics Practical Course
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