On Sun September 28 2003 18:49, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Jimmy Whitwell made a darwin_lib package that installs libraries
> needed in order to run Darwin binaries with COMPAT_DARWIN. It is in
> pkgsrc now, give it a try and have fun!
>
> NB: A lot of things already work with COMPAT_DARWIN. X11 stuff
> should be okay if you use our native X server, but all of this is
> mostly an unexplored world. Nobody tried interesting applications
> such as Darwin's JVM, or Matlab. There is no particular reason why
> it should fail.

This sounds interesting. Darwin may eventually be the emulee of 
choice. Am I entirely wrong or does it seem that running the Darwin 
JVM (or any proprietary binary-only package) would be magnitudes 
easier than some "linux" binary package?