mac osX

[Eric Oyen]

hmmm. I missed his "almost" quip there. THats the big problem, Almost never is. I have run into problems with that word when it comes to OS X versus Linux. Its those little differences that can break a compile.

-eric

On Jul 12, 2015, at 1:45 AM, Michael Butash wrote:

> Differing windowing api's mostly.  Same reason gtk apps work oddly under kde(qt), vise-versa, and java gui features don't work right on anything ever.
> 
> Anything hardware accelerated graphic-wise use totally different driver sets and gpu stuff too, compositing functions for enhanced gui features (make pretty transparencies), things like that differ extensively with their kernels.  Same as directx based games never work right under wine, you can only emulate some things so much by reverse engineering and fuzzing.
> 
> They're just building yet another walled garden like everyone, pick your religion.  Sort of why webapps are the last frontier, it shouldn't matter at that point what garden you reside in (but still does).
> 
> -mb
> 
> 
> On 07/11/2015 01:32 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>> Here is a good question. WHy doesn't their software work on Linux/GNU? They are the same (almost).
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