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		rbanffy on Nov 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Growl 1.3.1 is out, no longer free Funny you say that. I have distinct memories of running Gnome on top of Linux, FreeBSD and OpenSolaris. I even remember running a somewhat early version on IRIX and on MkLinux. I must be mistaken.

icebraining on Nov 7, 2011 [–]

I never said it had to be exclusive to one OS.

rbanffy on Nov 7, 2011 | [–]

But wouldn't that mean it's no more part of the underlying OS as Keynote is not part of OSX?

icebraining on Nov 7, 2011 | | [–]

I can use the FreeBSD kernel in FreeBSD and Debian. Is the kernel not part of the FreeBSD OS?

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