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Interview - Jim White of the Darwine project
Kelly McNeill writes "The Darwine project intends to port and develop Wine as well as other supporting tools that will allow Darwin and Mac OS X users to run Windows Applications. It is an open source project led by a growing number of developers including Emmanuel Maillard, Pierre d'Herbemont and Sanjay Connare. osOpinion/osViews had the privilege to speak to with the project's administrator, (Jim White) to tell us more about Darwine and where the project is headed. For those that don't know, Darwine is Wine (Wine Is Not an Emulator) for OS X on PPC. The following is the transcribed dialog of their conversation which is also available in an audible format on osRadio.com."
Apps are not running natively:
"Developers should be able to recompile their Win32 Apps using WineLib and make them work in Mac OS X..."
Let me Clarify myself. If you read the article, you notice DarWINE combines WINE with a back-end emulator. The package, as it stands, is a syscall wrapper along with a back-end emulator. Hence, DarWINE *is* partially an emulator. [and the fun recursive acronym isnt as appropriate]
When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi. (Larry Wall)
How about a way to run Max OSX apps in Linux???
Well, if you're on a PPC architecture already, there's Mac-On-Linux. Though, I'm sure that by the tone of your comment, you actually meant x86. Well, ask and you shall receive. For the x86 folks (or just about anyone on Linux), there's PearPC. And you know what? They're both open source...
Motion, iMovie, Final Cut Pro, etc...
One could argue that there are PC apps that have the same purpose as these apps, but some are merely adequate while others are near offensive.
(Shake would be included too, if it weren't for the fact it was a Linux app before it ever was a Mac OSX app. Still, the Linux version likely won't see updates anymore.)