Mac OS X program on linux?

pengyou · 09-28-2004, 05:42 AM

I have a windows program that I really like to use - helps me study Chinese - but there is no Linux version of it. There is, however, a Mac OS X version of it. Is there some version of Linux that will (may) run this program or should I invest my time with something like wine?

rjlee · 09-28-2004, 07:12 AM

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pearpc is a PPC emulator for Linux that you can install MacOS-X onto.

mhearn · 09-29-2004, 05:09 AM

No you cannot do that. You might be able to run the Windows version with Wine though.

PearPC is ridiculously slow, and actually requires a copy of OS X to run (obviously). If Wine works (it might not) you'll get native performance and don't neeed Windows.

pengyou · 09-30-2004, 06:09 AM

Thanks! I am going to install this on a 233 mhz pentium 1 Fujitsu Tablet PC. Do you think the interface for the mac OS and then the mac OS will be faster than Linux and wine? Which do you think will be easier to configure with a notebook? I have read several websites describing conversions of the Fuji 2300 to Linux and it seems to be rather successful.

rjlee · 09-30-2004, 11:28 AM

Wine will be much faster than PearPC/MacOSX because it doesn't use an emulator or a second operating system. Also, you don't need to buy MacOS X. But wine has some gaping holes in it that stops some software from working (then again, it tends to be updated more than daily so holes also get plugged quite quickly).

ferrix · 09-30-2004, 04:38 PM

I think you can pretty much forget about emulating MacOS X on a 233 P1. For starters, can you imagine MacOS X running on a Mac hardware that would be the equivalent of 233 P1? And now add a whole layer of emulation... not a chance in hell this would work, and if by some miracle it did, it would be so slow you'd be fluent in Chinese by the time first window refreshes

pengyou · 09-30-2004, 06:47 PM

Thanks!