On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 15:58 -0700, John Wendel wrote: > 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, I wouldn't describe it as "shit" - but anyway. > they have their own closed source graphics code. You'd have to start by > reverse engineering the graphics library. And probably violate patents. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
