Originally posted by johnc
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so, er, what programs that are OSX only without a windows counterpart that actually warrant this over using, say, WINE and dedicated the development time of this on WINE instead?
I guess most graphical applications would run faster than WINE since it would be translating OGL calls to OGL instead of DX -> OGL.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostI don't think it'll suck anywhere near as much as you think. As stated before, Mac and Linux are both POSIX, they both use OpenGL, they are both highly 64-bit optimized, and so on. Comparing Linux to Windows is like apples to oranges, whereas comparing Linux to Mac is like comparing limes to oranges. Obviously there'll be some performance loss but even Wine has had performance improvements over Windows once in a while. Free-BSD is probably a better platform to start with since that is more closely related to Mac. On the other hand, it's graphically inferior to Linux, and Mac is a very graphic intensive OS.
When porting the most important things are: access to source code and if the program was designed from start to be portable POSIX and other stuff you mentioned its just easing porting/emulation
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Originally posted by johnc View PostAre there any free open source software on OS X that aren't on Linux?
- Adium
- Telephone
- Burn
- NeoOffice
- Skim
- Cocoalicious
- Seashore
- Scaletron!
- iStumbler
- BibDesk
- SimplyBurns
- Max
I think you can find thousands open source applications for Mac OS X which aren't available for other operating systems like Linux, Windows etc. I saw plenty of commercial and freeware applications which are available only for Mac OS X.
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Originally posted by LubosD View PostJust FYI, most of the work on Darling is currently being done outside of the main Git repository - e.g. in gnustep-corebase, gnustep-base or darling-dmg (FUSE module to mount .dmg files on Linux).
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Originally posted by gbudny View PostHere are some examples:
- Adium
- Telephone
- Burn
- NeoOffice
- Skim
- Cocoalicious
- Seashore
- Scaletron!
- iStumbler
- BibDesk
- SimplyBurns
- Max
I think you can find thousands open source applications for Mac OS X which aren't available for other operating systems like Linux, Windows etc. I saw plenty of commercial and freeware applications which are available only for Mac OS X.
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