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Rhapsody, open-source OSs, and linux binary compatability?




http://RhapsodyOS.com/report/RP00012.html

 OPENBSD CODE TO BE ADDED TO RHAPSODY? A rumor from
 several sources regarding OpenBSD http://www.openbsd.org/ code
 being included in Rhapsody is an interesting one. This rumor started in
 October, but more recent information has made this item believable.
 Sources say that Apple contacted the OpenBSD project last October to
 use some of their code for the BSD-based utilities which will be
 included in Rhapsody. However, more recent sources lead us to believe
 that the project is wider reaching than a suite of utilities. MacOS Rumors
 posted a letter from the OpenBSD maintainers recently giving permission
 to Apple to integrate a portion of the OpenBSD code base into
 Rhapsody. A source close to Theo de Raadt, OpenBSD project
 coordinator, told us this week that Theo has indeed been in contact with
 Apple about source code inclusion. What would compel Apple to utilize
 OpenBSD source code? OpenBSD is commonly regarded as the most
 secure and compliant UNIX operating system available. Another
 important strength is that OpenBSD supports binary emulation of most
 programs from Solaris, FreeBSD, Linux, BSDI, SunOS, and HP-UX.
 Whether or not Apple could actually take advantage of binary emulation
 is unknown. 


 MERCED BUILD OF RHAPSODY? MacOS Rumors states that Apple
 has already begun work on a version of Rhapsody for the upcoming
 64-bit "Merced" chip from Intel and HP. For almost a year now, we've
 been hearing from various sources that Steve Jobs believes the future for
 Rhapsody may be in the Merced chip. However, employees at Apple
 have done their best to downplay this rumor and turn our attention to the
 fact that Apple makes its money from hardware sales which use the
 PowerPC chip. Even if Apple intends to create a 64-bit clean version of
 Rhapsody/Intel for the Merced chip, this doesn't change the reality that
 Apple's Rhapsody focus will be for the PowerPC.