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If you're willing to wait a few months or so, Alky will be out. Alky is a program "translator", so to speak. It converts DX calls into OpenGL calls, and vise-versa. It does the same for just about everything. Personally, I know one of the key developers. Alky will bridge the gap between computing platforms, in that it basically "translates", say, a windows app, to run natively on linux. Or OS X. Or a linux app to windows. Or OS X. And so on. Thats right, natively.

www.alkyproject.com < I believe is the site. You can help with it, too(if you know any programming languages like C or C++), because its open source.

thanks. that looks cool. I know very little C and C++ I'm going to learn that in tech class this school year

if you look through a mac there is alot of unix securites. like permissions like you would if you were running a unix server. there are tools that you find in unix in OSX. There are BSD features in OSX but there is more Unix in it than BSD.

damn, I have a power PC Mac...

http://developer.apple.com/unix/

here is a guide explaining.

[edit] http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/x11/

here ya go.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/unix/

True, but not in the same way that OS X is based on BSD. The OS X kernel shares a lot of the very same code from the netBSD kernel. However, netBSD is based on unix, only in concept and in ideas, they do not share code.