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    Is there a mac alternative to wine?

    Not that I'd use it myself but I was curious, is there a mac alternative to what wine does for windows applications?

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    Re: Is there a mac alternative to wine?

    No. The reason is that it takes a huge amount of effort to reverse engineer an OS, and comsidering that most Mac native apps also have Windows versions, and that Wine has been around since the 90's, it makes much more sense to put all the effort into Wine. Coming up with an even somewhat usable Mac alternative would take years and many people's hard work, all for just a small selection of Mac only software.
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    Re: Is there a mac alternative to wine?

    @doorknob60: fair enough

    @aysiu: wasn't what i meant, maybe I should have been clearer. What if you wanted to install a mac installation on linux, is there something like wine that does that.

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    Re: Is there a mac alternative to wine?

    Quote Originally Posted by guyver_dio View Post
    @doorknob60: fair enough

    @aysiu: wasn't what i meant, maybe I should have been clearer. What if you wanted to install a mac installation on linux, is there something like wine that does that.
    I too was confused by your original post. Thanks for clarifying. I get it now.

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    Re: Is there a mac alternative to wine?

    PearPC which is an emulator will allow you to run older versions of OS X with PPC support. But this is not exactly what you are after as it still requires the OS and is probably in violation of Apples EULA.
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    Re: Is there a mac alternative to wine?

    it could be done. it might take roughly as much work as making wine. (maybe slightly less as maxosx is more unixy and has less legacy stuff).

    but i have not heard of anyone even starting to do it.

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    Re: Is there a mac alternative to wine?

    Isn't crossover wine based?
    Whoever came up with the phrase "There is no such thing as a stupid question" obviously never had the internet.

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    Re: Is there a mac alternative to wine?

    Quote Originally Posted by mamamia88 View Post
    Isn't crossover wine based?
    Yes and no. A lot of things work better in crossover, while other things work better in wine. Similarly, ReactOS isn't wine, yet has some code from it (a lot, actually, it's just it has its own kernel, and thus can install Windows drivers, unlike Wine, which takes advantage of the Linux kernel for drivers.)

    Mac OS had a wine implementation called darwine, but it's been abandoned for quite some time.

    As for installing OSX Stuff on Linux.... Why?
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    Re: Is there a mac alternative to wine?

    Quote Originally Posted by Lucradia View Post
    As for installing OSX Stuff on Linux.... Why?
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