[Xastir] Soundmodem on OSX

[Keith Kaiser]

Thanks for the explanation Jason, I won't say its all clear now but I  
do understand better.

So now all we have to do is find some software genius that can create  
a soundmodem equivalent for us.

Yea, that'll happen!



On Jun 20, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Jason KG4WSV wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Keith Kaiser <wa0tjt at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Technically Xastir doesn't run on Mac's either but it does run in  
>> X11 which
>> in the case of the Mac is running on BSD Unix. Or maybe I  
>> misunderstand the
>> relationship of one to the other something that is not unlikely.
>> Anyway I was thinking soundmodem would run there as opposed to  
>> actually
>> running on OSX.
>
>
>
> OS X _is_ BSD unix.  It's not some sort of emulation mode.
>
> xastir _does_ run (directly, natively) on OS X, just like it does on  
> other
> BSD unices.
>
> X11 is a windowing graphics system.  It is not the native graphics  
> for OS X
> applications, but it is an OS X subsystem.  This was rather typical  
> years
> ago, as workstation manufacturers (Sun, SGI, etc) had their native  
> graphics
> mode with good performance, but also had X11 for portability. The  
> X11 server
> must be running for xastir to have some display support.
>
> soundmodem uses the linux kernel; OS X runs the BSD kernel.  They have
> different sound system interfaces. This is why soundmodem doesn't  
> work on OS
> X.
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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73's
Keith Kaiser
wa0tjt at gmail.com