Greg K Nicholson escribió: > Is a compatibility layer (like Wine) to run Mac OS X programs on Linux > feasible? Does one already exist? > > It seems to me, the uneducated layman, that it should be *easier* to > make a Mac compatibility layer (“Mine”?) than one for Windows since: OS > X is Unix-like, Darwin is open source (so less reverse-engineering), and > Cups is already shared between OS X and Linux, so... there's some common > ground, right? On the other hand, OS X has a faster release schedule > than Windows, and there's (arguably) much less demand. > > Anyhow, it'd be cool if we could say “all OS X programs will Just Work™ > on Ubuntu, too”. >
You'd need to do reverse engineering work something similar to Wine to support all the UI APIs (Cocoa and such); those aren't open source. (I have never done any OS X programming; I might not know what I'm talking about :P) -- 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
