MacOS applications will arrive on Gnu / Linux this year

Darling sample

Many of you already know Wine and its solutions to be able to run Windows applications on Linux. There is also the possibility of installing Windows applications on MacOS thanks to Wine.

With the arrival of Bash to Windows 10, the arrival of Linux applications to Windows will be possible, but What about MacOS applications for Linux? Is there a tool to do this?

I personally don't know of any tools that will perform this virtualization or function exactly, but this could change during this year. In 2012 was born a project called darling, a project that sought to port MacOS applications to Linux. This project was interesting but we have not known anything about it for five years.

The Darling Project increases its staff as well as libraries to emulate MacOS applications

However, the creator of the project has announced that they have incorporated more developers to the project which allows a total remodeling of it, making it more effective than up to now, that is, creating real solutions. The idea is to change the libraries used for MacOS applications to become functional in Linux. This will begin to use Match-O and the EFL libraries to achieve this.

More details about this can be found in the official website of the project, but everything seems to indicate that before the end of the year we will find a real solution that we can install for those who seek run macOS applications on our Gnu / Linux distribution, such as the famous iTunes or iBooks from Apple, among many other MacOS applications.

The Darling Project looks like it will be one of the most popular projects during this 2017Although I personally prefer to run native applications for Linux, that is, a bad copy of iTunes or Pages, it will be better than the emulation of this program, it sounds strange but in the long run it gives us less problems and more joys.


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  1.   inukaze said

    Well, if it is an "emulator", which bios romset, will it be needed to run these applications? In the options, what type of processor can we choose? Apart from that, since it is in "emulator", we can specify the most specific characteristics, such as the type of architecture to use, be it x86, x86_64, universal, etc? ?

    I think other projects like PCEm also need help in their version for GNU / Linux. :) as it allows emulating old pcs :)

  2.   Carles said

    And the paradox will arise that on my old MacBook (with Snow Leopard) I cannot run the latest version of a certain program and on my even older HP (with Ubuntu) I can. Cool. :-)

  3.   Jock vault said

    I'm kind of disappointed that the project isn't called: cider.