[NTLUG:Discuss] ..free choice -- and XP/ Passport- HERE HERE!

[Christopher Browne]

> And don't forget the column Brian Livingston, a long time Author on the
> inner workings of MS Windows, wrote about XP.  You can read the full column
> at http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/01/10/08/011008oplivingston.xml
> 
> I hope the industry takes this opportunity to push towards other platforms.
> 
> If the MAC OSX is unix based...does that mean that an application written
> for OSX would be or could be linux compatible?

A "daemon" or console process written for OS-X could well be easily recompiled 
on Linux.

A GUIed program would require that similar GUI APIs be available on Linux, so 
that if the OS-X program uses the "Quartz" rendering system, not available on 
Linux, it would be problematic to port it over.

The likely answer is that the "cool, GUIed stuff" probably won't be 
particularly portable...
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