Re: [MacPerl] linux

[Rich Lafferty <rich@alcor.concordia.ca>]

Quoting Paul Schinder (schinder@pobox.com) from Sat, Nov 20, 1999 at 10:28:41PM -0500:
> At 10:04 PM -0500 11/20/99, Chris Nandor wrote:
> >At 18.39 -0800 1999.11.20, Mike Schienle wrote:
> >  >The good news is that you get the stability and speed of a Linux
> >  >system. The downside is that you do not have access to MacOS or its
> >  >applications. You can probably access data on a Mac partition, but
> >  >the applications would just be binary files.
> >
> >Thanks to mol (mac-on-linux), you can run Mac OS on LinuxPPC.  A friend of
> >mine on #perl did it, and he even tested MacPerl and Mac::Glue, and it all
> >worked for him.  He tested the label and beep example script with
> >Mac::Glue, and it worked (except that sound does not work with mol right
> >now, so instead of beeping, the screen flashed).

That'd be me. :-) It *is* pretty nifty, actually -- and stable enough
that I'm going to be using it on my main work machine (on which about 1/4
of my work requires MacOS). The results of the rest of my tests are at
<http://relish.concordia.ca/rich/moltest.html>, for anyone interested.
 
> MOL also required you to build your own kernel, 
> since the kernel source needs to be patched.  

Not anymore. It's patched at runtime, as long as you have a recent kernel.
I can't remember what LinuxPPC/YDL ship with now, but I think 2.2.6 was
the last kernel that *couldn't* be patched at runtime.

  -Rich

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