From:	scott@**********.com (Scott Harrison)
Subject:	SR4 Conversion
Date:	Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:46:56 -0400

On Jul 28, 2005, at 14:13, warlock . wrote:

> SRDiceRoller program

> Wonder if you can convert this to *nix...

Well, Mac OS X is *nix. :-)

However, no it can not be converted since I am using the technology
Apple calls Cocoa. There is a GNU version of the grandfather of Cocoa
called OPENSTEP, but that is very limited compared to modern Cocoa. I
doubt Apple will port Cocoa to anything else since it is the most
powerful development system on the planet, and helps sells their
computers. I also doubt GNU will be able to get OPENSTEP up to the
level of Cocoa any time in the realistic future. And I really do not
want to go back to creating X interfaces.

As a friendly suggestion you may want to go out and pick yourself up a
Mac mini for $500 and a nice KVM switch to hook up to your current
devices. Then you can see what Mac OS X is like compared to Linux,
Solaris, FreeBSD, or whatever you are currently running. Besides
getting all the *nix software to run, and those silly productivity
apps, you would also be able to get some really cool things like
Delicious Library and of course SRDiceRoller. :-)

By the way, the Delicious Monster folks who create Delicious Library
run their business on 2 Mac mini machines. Fun little servers they
seem to make. :-)

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Scott Harrison