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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. Re:But by A+bsd+fool · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Because as good as OS X is, it's not a particularly good server platform and requires Mac hardware, while Linux has been around for ages, runs on commodity hardware, has a very well supported number of open source packages and is considered mainstream by most Unix admins.

    Exactly what OSX binaries do you desire to run on your "server"?

    I don't mention BSD since it's not really mainstream any longer

    How big is the rock you're living under?

    All that being said, I prefer OS X systems for my workstation and CentOS or Scientific Linux for servers. Redhat's nice, but overpriced when you need to deploy a lot of systems

    1. CentOS =~ s/Red Hat/CentOS/g.

    2. (Win7 || OSX) > Linux desktop; *BSD > Linux server.