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."

3 of 177 comments (clear)

  1. Great idea by nurb432 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Now one can run native Xapps, windows AND OSX apps on a unix box.. ( in theory at least )

    Best of all the worlds combined. Run the app you need, on an OS you can trust.

    --
    ---- Booth was a patriot ----
  2. Time to get a PPC computer by The_Mutato · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I was thinking of getting a PowerPC computer and install GNU Darwin on it, but unfortunately GNU Darwin is dropping PowerPC and Cocoa support, so it is kind of useless. Considering that NetBSD runs just about every computer out there, the ability to run OSX binaries is greatly appreciated. I really hopes this becomes popular and that is really DOES run OSX binaries well, cuz then I'll be VERY happy. Mmm. OSX compatiblilty...

  3. Mac OSX is cool! But was about a PC-based distro by kha0z · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I made the move to MAC when OSX first came out. I guess I finally had a reason to purchase a computer that didn't come with bundled MS operating system and was based on UNIX. I try to avoid support MS as much as I can. :) The only thing that bugs is that I have to run Windows at home so that my kids and wife can use the home PC with ease. (Linux has come far, but its still not a really intuitive home desktop for the computer illiterate.) I only wish there would be a PC based distro of OSX. I would be happy to dish out the money for the licensing.

    --
    kha0z
    Master of ImportChaos.com