FreeBSD and OSX applications

Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC chad at shire.net
Tue Jul 29 18:42:42 PDT 2003



On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 07:33  PM, Rod Person wrote:

> Today I went to an Adobe seminar. All demos where done on OS X. I kept 
> think that it looked a lot like KDE and of course I got to thinking...
>
> Can applications such as Acrobat and Illustrator run on FreeBSD?

Of course, there is the problem of CPUs.  FreeBSD is x86 (and alpha) 
(for now) and OS X is a PPC processor.  So besides all the libraries 
and stuff like Quartz that you would need to emulate, you would need to 
emulate the CPU

Chad
also an OSX client/FreeBSD server user



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