Re: [seul-edu] Re: [school-discuss] Edu-apps under wine

[Donald J Christensen <djc@cisco.com>]

Supporting the file format is the easy part, and that is probably about
all that can be leveraged from a Mac version.  Mac OS X is BSD underneath,
but it is far from X on top, so there is no leverage on the GUI end.  The
port from there would be no easier (and perhaps might even be harder) than
from Windows.

-Don

Doug Loss wrote:
> 
> Here's a link to a page about the World Book Encyclopedia on Mac OS X:
> 
> http://store.worldbook.com/wb/product.asp?sku=10538
> 
> I figure that if they can support it on OS X (which is a flavor of BSD Unix at
> the bottom of it all) they should be able to do so on Linux without too much
> trouble.

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Don Christensen       Senior Software Development Engineer
djc@cisco.com         Cisco Systems, Santa Cruz, CA
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