darwin linux

darwin linux

[Danny Crone]

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Hello.  I am thinking of getting a mac and trying to run linux on it.  Is there a speakup for darwin yet?

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Re: darwin linux

[Patrick Turnage]

Hello
First of all the GUI will not at this time talk. OS X is completely
different from OS9, and so the outspoken program needed to be redone to
make it read the interface of the MAC. Darwin is another story. I do not
know much about it. If it is Linux maybe it could be done but I figured
that darwin was linux based and not unix based. If you are going to put a
form of Linux on a computer why buy a Macintosh?
I do agree that the MAC has benefits but not if you are not going to access
the GUI. Of course it may have some I am not aware of but how is the status
of porting Linux and speakup to other platforms, no, I meant architectures
forgive me.. It is getting late in my corner of the world. Looking at my
source tree the architectures are:
Sparc64
Sparc
PPC(Some MACS)
MIPS
M68K(isn't that modarola used in some MAC's?)
Arm (BrailleNote right?)
alpha
good night
Patrick


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Re: darwin linux

[Aaron Howell]

Darwin is FreeBSD based, not Linux.
Speakup would first need to be ported to FreeBSD before it would be of use to Darwin users.
The work of taking it from there to Darwin would be relatively easy,
though the point of it, given that the main advantage of MacOSX is its graphical interface, is somewhat questionable.
Regards
Aaron
On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 12:30:35AM -0500, Patrick Turnage wrote:
> Hello
> First of all the GUI will not at this time talk. OS X is completely
> different from OS9, and so the outspoken program needed to be redone to
> make it read the interface of the MAC. Darwin is another story. I do not
> know much about it. If it is Linux maybe it could be done but I figured
> that darwin was linux based and not unix based. If you are going to put a
> form of Linux on a computer why buy a Macintosh?
> I do agree that the MAC has benefits but not if you are not going to access
> the GUI. Of course it may have some I am not aware of but how is the status
> of porting Linux and speakup to other platforms, no, I meant architectures
> forgive me.. It is getting late in my corner of the world. Looking at my
> source tree the architectures are:
> Sparc64
> Sparc
> PPC(Some MACS)
> MIPS
> M68K(isn't that modarola used in some MAC's?)
> Arm (BrailleNote right?)
> alpha
> good night
> Patrick
> 
> 
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> Patrick Turnage
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