Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Running Mac OS X Binaries With NetBSD

Posted by Hemos on from the making-it-work dept.

An anonymous reader writes "KernelTrap has an interesting article about an effort to add a Mach and Darwin binary compatibility layer to NetBSD. The project has evidently already made a fair amount of progress, currently working to stabilize the WindowServer emulation portion that will then allow NetBSD to run Mac OS X graphical applications."

2 of 177 comments (clear)

  1. Re:maybe the way to a cheap mac? by entrox · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Half the speed? A tenth of the speed would be more realistic I think. PPCs have 32 general purpose registers, which would have to be emulated on the register-starved x86. This would perhaps be feasible on an Opteron or Itanium but not on that 2 decade old POS called x86.

    --
    -- The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
  2. Re:Great idea by kraksmoka · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    don't usually do coward replies.

    nice to use debian apt-get on windowmaker along side the proprietary shite . . . yes, i'm l33t, you're a Luser.

    --
    "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste." - Rahm Emanuel