Mac Software on Linux??

[cameraman_2]

Is there a way to run Mac software on linux?? Do you have to have a PPC version?
THanks

[xen]

Theoretically its possible, especially with Apple's switch to Intel x86 hardware (so no, you wouldn't need a PPC distro). However, and realistically, there is no solution as of yet. If you look at the current status of Wine the Windows emulator, you will see that emulation of a lesser supported platform is not too likely to happen anytime soon.

Anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong!

[cameraman_2]

darn, I was wanting to get FinalCut to run on Linux and get everyone in the department at UCA to switch. That was my master plan. To show how useful it is, Have the FinalCut running and the windows Photoshop Running side by side or another windows program to show them the power.

[xen]

If you owned a legit copy of OSX, you might be able to create a virtual machine for it using VMWare and then run it within within Fedora. This might not really achieve the functionality you are looking for however.

[Dies]

OS X sucks big time in a virtual machine, trust me.

[cameraman_2]

that's cool, thanks for the info.

[pete_1967]

You'd be better off trying to run it on FreeBSD because that's the OS Mac OSX is built on.

[xen]

You'd be better off trying to run it on FreeBSD because that's the OS Mac OSX is built on.

That's not really accurate, although it is based on a derivitave of BSD. The user interface and other system features will be entirely different, and so there's really no point in using FreeBSD to try it.

The user interface for OSX is based on OPENSTEP created by NeXT (Steve Job's company post-Apple)...

[pete_1967]

That's not really accurate, although it is based on a derivitave of BSD. The user interface and other system features will be entirely different, and so there's really no point in using FreeBSD to try it.

The user interface for OSX is based on OPENSTEP created by NeXT (Steve Job's company post-Apple)...

It's still based on FreeBSD, not Linux, therefore it makes more sense to try to get Mac software running on FreeBSD than on Linux.


At its heart Mac OS X is a descendant of FreeBSD. The Apple engineers used FreeBSD as a blueprint for OS X, however there are differences at the heart of the OS. At the very heart, the OS X kernel is based on the Mach project at Carnegie Mellon University. However where most UNIX people interact with the system, at the shell, Mac OS X greatly resembles a BSD-based UNIX, albeit with a few Apple twists.


His question was to get Mac software to run on Linux, my suggestion was to try it on FreeBSD for above reason. We all know that it is not FreeBSD anymore nor using same GUI than FreeBSD (which uses what ever you want to use, or none at all).

[wmc1369]

You might want to give this OSS project a look. It only works for ppc systems, which I don't have, but it might help you with your goals.
http://www.maconlinux.org/

[cameraman_2]

Cool, thanks. wmc1369