Am 09.11.2007 um 02:28 schrieb Greg K Nicholson: > Is a compatibility layer (like Wine) to run Mac OS X programs on Linux > feasible? Does one already exist?
I'm aware of about 5 emulators (PearPC, mac-on-linux, Basilisk, SheepShaver, qemu) having various extents of Mac OS and Mac OS X support. Then, there's GNUstep with it's Cocoa compatible API: Porting Mac OS X apps to Linux is possible. > It seems to me, the uneducated layman, that it should be *easier* to > make a Mac compatibility layer (“Mine”?) than one for Windows > since: [...] Don't forget all the CoreFoundation, CoreAudio, CoreWhatever and Carbon stuff. Many Apps use Java, AppleScript, Ruby, Python (all Apple-tweaked and with bindings to other technologies). Even "pure" Cocoa apps peek into other technologies here and there. From the API perspective, Mac OS X is just a big mess. So, a tightly integrated hardware-level emulator should be possible, but at an API level, I'd see a huuuuge effort. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
