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trc3

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« Reply #30 on: 18 September 2002, 18:28 »
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Originally posted by Ex Eleven / b0b:
i think that Linux is better then Mac OS because its open source and that helps me.


Darwin is open source.

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« Reply #31 on: 18 September 2002, 19:14 »
good point, but is it free software and GPL or BSD licenced?

this is the problem with the obfuscation of the term 'open source'.
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« Reply #32 on: 19 September 2002, 05:54 »
I think darwin is free, at least the kernel and some BSD parts.  When you buy os x your pretty much paying for the Agua GUI.  You can get some of the source code here:

http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/darwin/


[EDIT]You can read their license [Apple Public Source License (APSL)] here:  
http://www.opensource.apple.com/apsl/

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« Reply #33 on: 19 September 2002, 05:55 »
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WTF that has an IE icon and a Win32 EXE on the desktop whats going on!, Is that Lindows or somthing????????


Hell no, that's Red Hat Linux 8.

I'm using wine/winex (winex for games and wine for everything else)  I have .exe files associated with wine; it's really slick.  I can launch any win32 program by double clicking on it.  And the IE icon is purely a joke (although I do have an IE skin for mozilla that makes it look identical to IE)
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