> With OS X, who needs linux too? OS X will run all your favorite GNU > tools, XFree is already ported (I think they even have it running > non-full-screen now), so you can run anything that linux can. :) Hell, > they might even port the linux compatibility stuff from *BSD - it would > probably be ridiculously easy. 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. :) Carl Soderstrom -- Network Engineer Real-Time Enterprises (952) 943-8700