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

There is no project because.....

[darinp]

Microsoft will give you everything you need on the x86 platform No, Really!

Re:Cocoa and Carbon

[Anonymous Coward]

Wine has taken years to get as far as it has.

Amen to that. And it's still going to be years before it will support anything as current as today. By the time full XP support is available in WINE, XP will be 2 generations past.

Just a ripoff of Microsoft Office

[Anonymous Coward]

Linux uses kernel source code taken from Apple OSX anyway, so it should be easy. But this will lead to Linux viruses being passed into Apple machines which Steve Jobs won't be very happy about.

Re:Just a ripoff of Microsoft Office

[Anonymous Coward]

That's true. But apple fanboys will be all like "oh noes" and "wah wah" because their precious softwares have been pwned.

But by the time anyone's translated several forum comments from chinese just to figure out how to get the OSX app to compile on their variant/version of Linux they'll probably give up and use a proper operating suystem since you get what you pay for in the end.

Re:Simple reasons for this.

[Anonymous Coward]

And here's me thinking it's because no one smart enough to do the work buys a mac.

Here is a good way to do it...

[Anonymous Coward]

Just run Mac OS X you fucking twit.

Of course you can't

[Anonymous Coward]

You guys aren't grasping the FOSSie anti-choice agenda. They are ONLY concerned with ripping off Microsoft, and trying to weaken their market share. Teh Lunix D00dz have zero interest in doing anything which could harm the Apple monopoly, since it's a "Shashdot approved monopoly".

The FOSSies only permit two choices: either you go with teh Lunix and the all-FOSS application lock-in, or you go with OSX and the all-Apple application lock-in. The LAST thing FOSSies want is for people to go with Windows, where true choice exists: you can choose from a huge market of commerical software, you can go with any of tons of FOSS solutions, or any combination thereof.

The GPL is all about destroying choices in the marketplace, and we all know that Apple is a brutal monopoly. The amazing thing, to me, is how Apple managed to get FOSSies to help them in their monopolistic agenda. I don't know what's in it for the FOSSies, but maybe the fact that both groups walk around with a false sense of superiority (and security) is the glue which binds them together.

Re:Of course you can't

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, what an insightful and well thought out reply! You really showed everyone how wrong I am about the FOSS anti-choice agenda!

So according to all you FOSSie geniuses, I...

1) own Microsoft stock, and post to Slashdot because by some mysterious alchemy it will cause the price of my stock to rise

2) work for Microsoft, because obviously nobody else in the world outside of Redmond uses any software created by MS

3) am just saying stuff which is provocative, despite the fact that everything I say is true.

Yep, with the braintrust Slashdot has created, it's no wonder Lunix is the third-tier operating system it is today. Maybe in another 15 years, you guys will figure out how to make Lunix on the desktop almost as usable and reliable as Windows 95.

Keep chasing those tail lights! They're only 12 years away!

Re:Cocoa and Carbon

[Anonymous Coward]

Stop sucking Steve Jobs' balls.

YUO FAIL IT

[Anonymous Coward]

Outreach 48e

Re:mod parent back up

[ozmanjusri]

*I* read it as a joke.

Perhaps, but since Mr Derrida has failed to expose binary oppositions within the post and was therefore unable to demonstrate that it's oppositions are culturally and historically defined, even reliant upon one another, he has also failed to suggest that the text's opposed concepts are ambiguous, making the meaning fluid as well.

As a result, Mr Derrida has not been true to himself, and it could be argued that this act of self-denial is in itself trollish, and therefore deserving of the moderation.