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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."

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  1. Re:You forgot one by TheTrueGStu · · Score: 0, Troll

    umm...

    But can it emulate OGG?

  2. Re:More pollution of OSX UI by Ars-Fartsica · · Score: 0, Troll
    However, if developers choose not to adhere to these guidelines, there's little that can be done

    But Apple could have easily prevented this by going with one look and not implementing other options. Of course the Aqua look seems so child-like and annoying that I see why they have tried to change course post-release.

  3. Re:Trouble is... by JamieF · · Score: 0, Troll

    >the main difficulty of getting Windows software companies to provide a Linux version is the tiny market share of Linux compared to Windows

    Mac users are used to paying money in order to get something that works. Linux users are used to spending hours on end putzing around in order to get something that more or less does the job. Which one would you rather try to sell software to?