site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com Tony M. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... Is it possible to run and install applications made for unix (e.g. Matlab, Mathematica, Cadence unix versions) on MAC OSX and/or Darwin? Matlab and Mathematica have specific MacOSX releases. Naturally they're not free, but I think if you're already licenced to use the product it doesn't cost extra to get the MacOSX version. As others have explained, you can't just take a Unix release and run it under X11 on Darwin - it has to be compiled for the specific processor architecture. The MacOSX version of Matlab is actually a fairly straight port of the Unix version - the front end is Cocoa from what I can tell, but X11 is used for the graphics engine. You could experiment with Octave, a free and broadly Matlab-compatible computation suite that runs in Darwin. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com