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Linux Revolution: Mac Apps on Linux?

Feb 22, 2006, 19:45 (7 Talkback[s])

"With the release of Apple's OS X for Intel x86-based processors, OS X applications are being released in a different 'format' to run on these new processors. After reading about this many times, a thought occurred to me: x86 executables (programs) instead of PowerPC (the old processor type) executables means that if one wanted to hypothetically try to run OS X applications on Linux, it would no longer require an emulator. Then it occurred to me.

"I might be wrong, but I believe it should now be possible to implement an OS X API on top of UNIX, exactly like what WINE did to the Windows API..."

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