Compaq and Microsoft discontinued NT on Alpha. That makes Alpha as mainstream as PA-RISC. What I'm saying is, unless you have lots of time, know-how, and access to Alpha boxes, Dar…

Finally? After 15 yrs, a resurgance of unix with today's announcement of IBM's commitment to suporting and building Linux boxes and software. So will 'any' unix app run or easily…

So will 'any' unix app run or easily ported to OS X? Essentially, yes. Is this an incorrect or naive view of where this is moving? IBM developed apps for Linux (servers) running…

Hi, I'm not sure I agree with you Scott. For any plane old command line UNIX application I see no problem. Some stuff has been ported to OS X sever already. But the application…

Hi, I'm not a programmer, but I'm interested to know what Cocoa's real capabilites are. Avadis Tevanian was quoted saying that applications can be developed in 1/10 of the time on…

I'm not a programmer, but I'm interested to know what Cocoa's real capabilites are. Avadis Tevanian was quoted saying that applications can be developed in 1/10 of the time on OS X…

Well either I'm doing something wrong?Is there any way to get one (not a text based GUI).Other than that i love darwin. --------------------- Bishop karney if you go there post a…

Wow tell me where you found a text based GUI (Grapical User Interface)

Darwin has no GUI yet. Dan

Has anyone tried compiling X-Windows for it, with GTK+ libs and the works so as to run gnome? 'Tis a silly question, but if the community can, then they will start to make somethi…

I am located in the Los Angeles area and am interested in forming a "garage band" group to work on open-source games with me in their spare time. This is not a job offer since I a…

Has anyone had any luck trying to use Sun Microsystems Forte For Java? (Used to be called NetBeans). For those who don't know, Forte is a Java IDE written in JAVA. You can downloa…

What exactly do I need to do and get in order to start developing Cocoa apps? Are there any additional tools or resources that anyone suggests? Do I really have to wait a month for…

Quote: Originally posted by jwardell: What exactly do I need to do and get in order to start developing Cocoa apps? Are there any additional tools or resources that an…

Thanks Ali. I have been reading through the HelloWorld and AboutBox tutorials found on Apple's Cocoa docs pages. However, the tutorials are actually for making Carbon apps. Is Coco…

You can find usefull informations at developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/macosx.html see Developer tools

Quote: Originally posted by jwardell: Thanks Ali. I have been reading through the HelloWorld and AboutBox tutorials found on Apple's Cocoa docs pages. However, the tutor…

Does anyone know what the future of Java vs. Objective-C is for Cocoa development? From the surface, it looks as if Objective-C is the more attractive choice, but I want to make s…

I've been messing with cocoa for the last few days. Its really sort of cool. I find the actions and outlets interesting. They have a pdf file that walks you though a simple cocoa j…

Quote: Originally posted by marvin: The fact is *hardly anyone* uses objective c anymore outside of Apple. For what it's worth, that "hardly anyone" includes The Om…

Quote: Originally posted by aabernathy: For what it's worth, that "hardly anyone" includes The Omni Group. I hope that people will give Objective-C a fair shake. Ther…

I can use CW 5 to create a Carbon app which runs natively in MacOS X Public Beta. My question is, what does OS X do when I call DebugStr? It doesn't halt the program. I'm wonderi…

I haven't tried it in OS X Public beta, but in DP4, DebugStr logged a message to the console. This is actually a lot more useful than the OS 9 behavior; it's a lot like DCon, if yo…

[This message has been edited by JohnStiles (edited 09-19-2000).]

Right you are -- and, say, that's mighty handy! Thanks a million.