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Darling: Run Apple OS X Binaries On Linux

Posted by Soulskill on from the sure-thing-sweetheart dept.

An anonymous reader writes "After having Wine to run Windows binaries on Linux, there is now the Darling Project that allows users to run unmodified Apple OS X binaries on Linux. The project builds upon GNUstep and has built the various frameworks/libraries to be binary compatible with OSX/Darwin. The project is still being worked on as part of an academic thesis but is already running basic OS X programs."

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  1. How long before... by rbprbp · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... Apple finds a loophole and sues this developer into oblivion?

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    1. Re:How long before... by squiggleslash · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Companies don't just sue people for no reason. For Apple to sue Darling, there'd have to be some kind of motivation for them to do so. Otherwise it would:

      1. Waste a lot of money.
      2. Cause a lot of ill-feeling
      3. Possibly set precedents that bind it in future in a way damaging to Apple in the long term.

      It's hard to see what kind of threat this product would be to Apple, and in theory it might even be a benefit.

      Apple's market is based upon people liking the way Apple's devices work. With a small number of famous exceptions, few people buy Apple because of the exclusive availability of a particular piece of software. By and large, the vast majority of people interested in Apple's products aren't going to be interested in Ubuntu with a software compatibility layer. Of the few left who need a Mac for a particular piece of professional software, few are going to risk running that software on an unsupported compatibility layer.

      I find it very improbable Apple will sue. I think they'll ignore it.

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  2. Re:What about the rest of the APIs? by cr_nucleus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You mean a project that just started with a single guy isn't complete or near completion ?

    Yeah it's gonna be tough but it doesn't mean it can't be useful or grow much bigger than it is now (rember this thing called Linux ?).