Run Mac OS X Apps On Linux?

I have the urge to commit my 24" Core 2 Duo iMac to a single Linux operating system, thus giving up the goodness of my beloved Mac OS X. I am not a stranger to Linux, but I am a stranger to running Mac apps on Linux. On my PowerPC I can use SheepShaver to run Classic apps. The Mac-on-Linux project can run OS X apps, but it requires a PowerPC, not an x86. Virtualizing and emulating are inefficient, especially given the wonderful results the WINE project has had in getting Windows apps to run on Linux. What I would like is an equivalent: a software compatibility layer that will allow Linux to run Mac OS X apps at native performance. I believe there is some additional complexity in accomplishing this. Mac OS X apps aren't just Mac OS X apps. They are Carbon. They are Cocoa. They are universal binaries. They are PPC code with Altivec. Does such a project exist yet? If not, why not?

Comments

Re:iTunes

[lorenzino]

Hey, is not like that once we have iTunes source you can crack their DRM. The DRM is applyed to the files only when they get to your computer, true, but with keys that anyway some program can find and crack already the files. The DRM can't be cracked, the keys can be found.Or the files read before encryption. The security of a system is not in its private source, otherwise we would have cracked public encryptiption of PGP long time ago. Bye

Relax...

[Savage-Rabbit]

I just want to know why you would want to replace OS X with Linux? I understand the FOSS ideals, but you could always run linux in a virtual machine. I've installed Linux on quite a few of my Macs over the years, but since OS X I find that almost all of the linux functionality is sitting right in OS X.
What do you hope to gain by installing Linux as the full-time OS? Please don't flame me, I'd like some logical points, or even a "just because". Relax... just be glad that he didn't ask for advice on how to replace OS X on his Mac with Windows Vista. If he had done that your computer would have melted the moment you loaded this article from the combined heat of thousands of flamewars and outraged comments. But all fun aside... What is wrong with "just because" as a reason to install Linux on a Mac? As has been pointed out by other people in previous discussions on this forum: Nerds do not need a reason to do nerdy things.. I applaud his nerdyness and urge him to actively avoid trying to justify what he plans to do, it would completely take the fun out of doing it.