[Am-info] Dreamworks goes Linux

[Mitch Stone]

I hadn't made any assumptions of simplicity, but from what I've been 
hearing, migrating Unix applications to OS X isn't highly difficult, 
either. The MacOS and Linux are now more similar than the MacOS or Linux 
is to Windows. This may be an opportunity for Adobe to leverage from one 
platform to the other.

Mitch

On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 05:03 PM, Sujal Shah wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 19:07, Mitch Stone wrote:
>>
>> On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 07:32 PM, Geoffrey wrote:
>>
>>> "Word has it that Adobe may be pursuing unix versions of it's toolset as
>>> DreamWorks isn't the only shop switching."
>>
>> This might be a compelling move -- they could service both their existing
>> Mac and new Linux customers with one code base.
>>
>
> This is unlikely, unfortunately, to be truly simple.  It might be easier
> to support both platforms by allowing the two platform sets to share
> certain core features, but if they have GUIs or any low level
> integration (i.e. using the proper Library vs. /usr/lib directories,
> etc), then the code bases will have significant divergence.
>
> I've coded for both MacOSX and Unix/X apps (GTK, GNOME, and plain
> vanilla X).  They are different in many fundamental ways.
>
> Sujal