I recall reading somewhere that IBM with one of it's AIX releases coming up will
be integrating Linux into AIX. I want to say 5.3 AIX?? The goal is to be able to
run Linux apps on AIX/RS600's.
Shawn
Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> my thoughts on that, are that it's like Solaris... you can add all the GNU
> tools, compile all the Linux programs, and make it a really cool
> environment.
>
> at which point you have to ask yourself 'why bother with the other OS in the
> first place'?
>
> what'll be very cool (and likely to come, I think); is OSX binary
> compatibility with Linux. :) So when Photoshop is fully OSX-ized[1]; it'll be a
> small step from there to running it on LinuxPPC or {Net|Open}BSD on PPC. :)
>
> ...and the thin end of the wedge widens. :)
>
> [1] I think I've heard the term 'carbonized' to refer to the process of
> making an application ready for OSX. This makes me think of what happened to
> Han Solo in _The Empire Strikes Back_... only messier. Not a pretty picture.
> :)
>
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