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Interview - Jim White of the Darwine project

Posted by Hemos on from the bettering-the-platform dept.

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."

8 of 233 comments (clear)

  1. 1st post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post bitches. GNAA is Dead.

  2. anagramcronynonym by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    world is not enough!

  3. Re:OT:OPEN LETTER TO SLASHDOT MODERATORS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    GNAA is dead, just like BSD.

  4. "the whole cathedral vs Bizarre issue" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    sigh :^)

  5. MOD PARENT UP by gmhowell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Did I miss any?

    Just that one. (Read the subject line)

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    Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
  6. Re:You forgot one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    There is a Quicktime Decoder plugin for Mac OS X now. It allows playback in iTunes and it worked great w/ my Ogg Vorbis collection (some 6+ GB of stuff I didn't want to re-rip).

    Encoding wise, it only supports MP3 and AAC, so to keep my iRiver happy I rip MP3 at 320kbps.

  7. Re:More pollution of OSX UI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, I was really disappointed as well. What KILLED me was that I couldn't use iMovie to edit my home videos WITHOUT BUYING QUICKTIME PRO! Seems you can take movies with your digital camera and move them onto your Mac just fine, but they must be converted from .mpg to .mov in order to use them for anything AT ALL on a Mac. Can't edit them, add titles, make a DVD, etc. VLC can't convert them, and I haven't found anything else that can either. I'm going to pirate QTPro since I want it for one hour's use and I'm pissed off that not one of the Mac zealots told me this when they were telling me I should "switch".

    And I'm even more irritated at Preview, which just sucks ass compared to the free IView32 I had on Windows, and I can't find a free Mac image/slideshow viewer that doesn't leave me disappointed...

    And what's worse, a quick look at my mp3s in emacs shows that iTunes embeds your hardware codes into any mp3s you rip, so if you ever "share" them with anybody, the feds can trace it right back to your computer. That SUCKS.

    All in all, I'm more disappointed with what I wasn't told by the Slashdot sales crew than what the interface looks like. Now I don't want to run Linux on my PowerBook because Apple used Broadcom wireless cards, which are pretty damn non-supported by open-source due to lack of suitable documentation from Broadcom. /rant over

  8. Re:What about the "INE" part? by diamondsw · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I know I won't get an answer, but how the hell did I get rated "Redundant" when I posted this *before* all of the other "+5 yadayada" posts? WTF?

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    I don't know what kind of crack I was on, but I suspect it was decaf.