Mac OS X software on Ubuntu

[Marcus Wareham]

Hey, I was wondering if it would be possible to run Mac OS X software on Ubuntu,

e.g. If there was some software like 'wine' which instead of emulating windows software it did os x software

Thank

Marcus

[starcraft.man]

Not to my knowledge. I mean darwin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29) project is available if ya wanna take a wack at that. It doesn't amount to an OSX clone though, Apple has closed things that run on top of basic darwin that make it OSX. Those aren't open source, those are also required for operation I believe.

You can get a copy of OSX and get it to run on a non-Apple machine but that's outside the scope of this forum and a bit grey. I advise to find Ubuntu equivalents if your moving over to linux, or else maybe take a stab at UNIX.

[Marcus Wareham]

Hey, Thats fine, I have been using Ubuntu for about a year, but there is some Mac os x software I would like to run, I can find an equivalent but some of them aren't quite the same.

I have a friend that runs mac os x (i pc) in virtual box to run mac os x software, but I was just checking there wasn't a wine like emulator, before I look into other ways of doing it.

I will have a look into Darwin

Thanks for the quick response

Marcus :D

[3rdalbum]

Hey, Thats fine, I have been using Ubuntu for about a year, but there is some Mac os x software I would like to run, I can find an equivalent but some of them aren't quite the same.

I have a friend that runs mac os x (i pc) in virtual box to run mac os x software, but I was just checking there wasn't a wine like emulator, before I look into other ways of doing it.

I will have a look into Darwin

Thanks for the quick response

Marcus :D

Darwin won't run OS X software, it's lacking the APIs that OS X programs need.

Darwin is, IMHO, kinda useless on its own. You can compile open-source programs to run on it, but then you'll be much happier just using Linux anyway. Apple really just makes Darwin so they can base OS X from it.

My best advice would be not to waste time downloading Darwin; if you really need Macintosh programs you should do whatever illegal thing you want to do to run OS X on non-Apple hardware. IANAL.

[MelDJ]

as you cant run a mac on virtualbox this may help: http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/about.html#features

[s.fox]

Hi,

I came across the Mac On Linux (http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/) (MOL) project sometime ago. Perhaps it will be of some use to you as an alternative suggestion. Here (http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) is a link to the wiki page. I have never tried it so cannot be certain it works.

-Silver Fox