11 Aug
2007
11 Aug
'07
1:16 p.m.
On Saturday 11 August 2007 15:54, Chuck Guzis wrote:
Another stupid question (forgive me, I am woefully
ignorant about
present-day "state of the Mac" issues:
If OS X is really Unix under the hood, then why do vendors of several
of my high-end applications that are offered in Windoze and OS X
versions all say "We have no plans for a Linux version"? It would
seem to be a pretty easy thing to do.
Because the graphical windowing systems for each are nothing like each
other? MacOS X has the capibility to run Xwindows programs, but it's
more of a compatibilty feature. Native OSX programs are written for
Aqua or whatever Apple calls its PDF-derived windowing environment.
Pat
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