Will software developed for Apple's OS X work on Linux e.g.Suse? Leo
Will software developed for Apple's OS X work on Linux e.g.Suse? Leo
Impossible to tell !! The developers who is workimg on/with AQUA API off course will NOT release Linux versions, simply because there are no AQUA for Linux ! But people who working with BSD side of MAC OS X can do this .. but the decision belongs to then, not us !! ;- ) Fábio Rabelo
Fast Info wrote:
Will software developed for Apple's OS X work on Linux e.g.Suse? Leo
I'd rather say no. Many opensource software have been ported to MacOSX, but not vice versa. The MacOSX architecture consists of several layers (see http://developer.apple.com/macosx/architecture/). In this page, Aqua runs only on MacOSX, Carbon is an layer that supplies APIs to both classic Macs and MacOSX. Classic is the emulator of classic Mac on MacOSX. Quartz is some rendering library developed by Adobe and runs only on MacOSX. Any application with one of these doesn't run on Linux unless someone develops Linux alternative. MOL (Mac on Linux) only supports classic Macintosh. So does Basilisk. -- BABA Yoshihiko Daido Information Technology Tokyo Linux Users Group
On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:56:37 -0700
BABA Yoshihiko
I'd rather say no. Many opensource software have been ported to MacOSX, but not vice versa. ... Any application with one of these doesn't run on Linux unless someone develops Linux alternative.
Actually porting Aqua programs will be quite easy once the GUI part of GNUstep is finished, since GNUstep follows the Aqua API quite closely. Some simple programs have already been ported. Charles -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
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