A WINE-like Mac compatibility layer under development

[amdfangirl]

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI0Njc

While there is the Wine project to run native Windows binaries on Linux (and other platforms), there's a new open-source project that's emerging for running Apple OS X binaries on Linux in a seamless manner.

It is The Darling Project that's set out to achieve binary compatible support for Apple OS X / Darwin applications on Linux. While in its early stages, Darling does leverage some code from GNUstep, an open-source implementation of Apple's Cocoa Objective-C libraries, widget tool-kit, and application tools.

And you guys just laughed at me when I suggested the idea.

 

[Ijack]

Did we (they)? I just don't know why anyone would bother with this. Whilst there are plenty of Windows programs that don't exist on, or can't ported to, Linux I don't see the same situation with OS X programs.

But it should be relatively easy as OS X's origins are much closer to Linux than Windows is

 

[amdfangirl]

Easy answer.

Someone desperately wants to use iWork/iLife .

*Imagines firing up Pages as a word processor again*