Intel Macs & Linux

[John Wendel]

Steven Pasternak wrote:
> Hi! I know that iTunes and Quicktime (among others) are popular 
> software from Apple that they refuse to release for linux. Before, we 
> had to depend on wine and the windblows edition of each to have them 
> under linux. Since now Apple OSX (and iTunes and Quicktime) are going 
> to be built under the x86 architecture, wouldn't it be possible to 
> port them to Linux? OSX is really just FreeBSD with some changes; it 
> is even built with GCC. I know that FreeBSD has linux support, can't 
> linux have FreeBSD/OSX-x86 support? Thanks!
> -Steven
>
Apple's shit won't port to Linux because they don't use X for graphics, 
they have their own closed source graphics code. You'd have to start by 
reverse engineering the graphics library.

Regards,

John