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I've gotten quite used to the convenience of Coda for my personal files, now that the realms code is usable for disconnected startup and and a lot of the spurious conflicts are gone. But I'm also getting used to the slickness of Quartz and the whole Aqua thang. Not having coda on the Mac is a world of pain, especially with the breakage of changing default shells between Jaguar and Panther. Unfortunately, AFAICT there is no kernel-venus interface for Mac OS X yet. How close is http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/doc/html/kernel-venus-protocol.html to being necessary and/or sufficient for implementing the kernel interface? What is the best place to borrow gobs of code from, FreeBSD or NetBSD, I guess? Is there much chance that will be useful given that the Darwin "kernel" isn't actually BSD, but a BSD "server" running on Mach? Anybody wanna help? NB. The closest I've come to kernel hacking is getting mildly toasted by Linus on one occasion, so maybe it would be the other way around ... I do the helping. :-) For sure, Mac fans had best not hold their breath waiting for me! -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.Received on 2004-01-29 09:59:47