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Has anybody ported OSX software (e.g. imovie) to linux? Given that Darwin is fairly closely based on BSD, shouldn't it be a matter of packaging up libraries to provide the base system?
Why not just use OSX? Cuz, honestly, I like KDE better.
The one thing I'm really missing on my linux desktop is a decent video editor -- I am almost ready to buy Main Actor -- but if there was some hack to get iMovie working, I'd be satisfied.
Darwin is not Mac OS X. Mac OS X is many layers of Mac-specific system interfaces and stuff on top of Darwin. Darwin is just the command-line core of the operating system that is rarely actually used by the user.
What you need depands on if you have a PPC or x86 processor. If it's PPC you just need the emulate the software, with this. If you have x86 then you need to emulate the hardware as well, with this. I don't run either, so I can't tell you how well they work.
Darwin is just the command-line core of the operating system that is rarely actually used by the user.
Not to hijack the thread, but I don't know if I agree with that statement. The CLI is there if you need it. I know I use it a LOT. Most of my friends and such that own Macs use CLI also. The average user? Maybe not, but the term 'average' has to be defined according to how savvy the average Mac user uses OSX. In my experiences, I've yet to see a Mac owner not touching the shell...even factoring in the 'rarely' comment you made.
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