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2002-09-10 11:50 / .dmg and linux? »
"The ability to distribute disk images (.dmg) files is currently exclusive
to Mac OS X." The core hdiutil - used to manipulate (create,
convert, attach, burn, ...) disk images - isn't open source yet, partially
because of some proprietrary codecs it uses. There's been a request
on darwin-development for it to be so, with an encouraging response,
but nothing definite was said. So .dmgs aren't even available in Darwin without
OS X, let alone linux, windows, or, I'm pretty sure, OS 9. (It's barely worth mentioning how
short-sighted it is to have an OS specific means of distributing software, and
that even more so for plain old source code.)
