Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 28th May 2009 12:08 UTC, submitted by lemur2
There are several ways to run Windows programs on Linux (virtualisation, WINE) and vice versa really isn't a problem either with Cygwin, or better yet, native ports thanks to the Windows variants of Gtk+ and Qt. Still, what if Windows support was built straight into the Linux kernel? Is something like that even possible? Sure it is, and the Chinese figured it'd be an interesting challenge, and called it the Linux Unified Kernel.
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For all those out there wondering how hard it'd be to support mach binaries it's not very difficult at all. It has already been done on bsd. They got the osx bundled X server to load on netbsd years ago. They cancelled the full mach-o binary compat layer due to lack of interest. Of course this was before the x86 move. There's also a softpear project unrelated to the pearpc emulator which was working on making powerpc mach-o executables link/run on x86. I tested it a while ago and was able to run ppc commandline mac applications. Should be possible to take the work of both projects and get it going on X86 Linux.
http://hcpnet.free.fr/applebsd.html - mach-o bsd compat
http://softpear.sourceforge.net/ - ppc osx binaries on linux
Edited 2009-05-29 09:43 UTC