On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 13:52 -0400, 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? If Apple wanted to they could, or if they opened the source code. > 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 > It is more than just "FreeBSD support" - something similar to WINE but for OS X api would be needed. OS X uses a completely different windowing system. I would rather not see QuickTime ported to Linux though - at least not as QuickTime Player. I would rather see Apple release GStreamer plugins so that I can watch QuickTime content within GStreamer video players (such as totem). -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
