Hey everyone 
I suppose I should get introductions out of the way before I ask some stuff about FreeBSD.
I'm a Midwestern college junior, engineering major, asus fanboi, shitty coder, and pretty hungover. I grew up on windows, currently running win7/linux, and love to fiddle around with software and hardware. I like long walks on the beach and tall glasses of ice water.
Well, I'm a linux guy and really curious about unix (FreeBSD in particular because free). Is it possible to use a .dmg file in any unix system, or is the OSX specific? Can OSX software be ported (easily)?
Hopefully this won't be a tl:dr, but this is because I tried to install steam on my linux box (running ubuntu 10.10 64 bit) using (at first) wine, then PlayOnLinux. Because you have to verify your box with valve to install a steam account on another computer (they ignore mac addresses), and playonlinux doesn't seem to save application states (?), every time you load steam using wine or playonlinux, you're prompted to input that friggin' code, which is different every time.
I'm sure most of you know this, but valve released a steam client for OSX. Though I don't know how steam works, was curious if the file could be executed on other UNIX systems. Maybe steam could get ported to FreeBSD (probably illegal though), and games could be installed and launched using a compatibility layer or something. I'm really not sure.
Thanks guys
I suppose I should get introductions out of the way before I ask some stuff about FreeBSD.
I'm a Midwestern college junior, engineering major, asus fanboi, shitty coder, and pretty hungover. I grew up on windows, currently running win7/linux, and love to fiddle around with software and hardware. I like long walks on the beach and tall glasses of ice water.
Well, I'm a linux guy and really curious about unix (FreeBSD in particular because free). Is it possible to use a .dmg file in any unix system, or is the OSX specific? Can OSX software be ported (easily)?
Hopefully this won't be a tl:dr, but this is because I tried to install steam on my linux box (running ubuntu 10.10 64 bit) using (at first) wine, then PlayOnLinux. Because you have to verify your box with valve to install a steam account on another computer (they ignore mac addresses), and playonlinux doesn't seem to save application states (?), every time you load steam using wine or playonlinux, you're prompted to input that friggin' code, which is different every time.
I'm sure most of you know this, but valve released a steam client for OSX. Though I don't know how steam works, was curious if the file could be executed on other UNIX systems. Maybe steam could get ported to FreeBSD (probably illegal though), and games could be installed and launched using a compatibility layer or something. I'm really not sure.
Thanks guys
