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  2. Linux on Apple devices - Wikipedia

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    The most popular PowerPC emulation tools for Mac OS/Mac OS X are Microsoft's Virtual PC, and the open-source QEMU. [8] Linux dual-booting is achieved by partitioning the boot drive, installing the Yaboot bootloader onto the Linux partition, and selecting that Linux partition as the Startup Disk. This results in users being prompted to select ...

  3. Target Disk Mode - Wikipedia

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    Host computers running Linux are also able to read and write to a Mac's HFS or HFS+ formatted devices through Target Disk Mode. It is working out-of-the-box on most distributions as HFS+ support is part of the Linux kernel. However these filesystems cannot be checked for errors, so for shrinking or moving partitions it is preferred to use Mac OS.

  4. Parallels Desktop for Mac - Wikipedia

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    Parallels Desktop for Mac is a hypervisor providing hardware virtualization for Mac computers. It is developed by Parallels, a subsidiary of Corel.. Parallels was initially developed for Macintosh systems with Intel processors, with version 16.5 introducing support for Macs with Apple silicon.

  5. MkLinux - Wikipedia

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    MkLinux (for Microkernel Linux) is an open-source software computer operating system begun by the Open Software Foundation Research Institute [1] and Apple Computer [2] in February 1996, to port Linux to the PowerPC platform, and Macintosh computers. The name refers to the Linux kernel being adapted to run as a server hosted on the Mach ...

  6. Darwin (operating system) - Wikipedia

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    GNU-Darwin was a project that ports packages of free software to Darwin. They package OS images in a way similar to a Linux distribution. The Darwine project was a port of Wine that allows one to run Microsoft Windows software on Darwin. SEDarwin was a port of TrustedBSD mandatory access control framework and portions of the SELinux framework ...

  7. Darling (software) - Wikipedia

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    Darling is a free and open-source macOS compatibility layer for Linux. [1] It duplicates functions of macOS by providing alternative implementations of the libraries and frameworks that macOS programs call. [2] This method of duplication differs from other methods that might also be considered emulation, [3] where macOS programs run in a ...

  8. List of Mac software - Wikipedia

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    Q – emulates an IBM-compatible PC on a Mac, allows running PC operating systems; VMware Fusion – virtualization software; Wine – Windows API reimplementation; Virtual PC – full virtualization software allows running other operating systems, such as Windows and Linux, on PowerPC Macs (discontinued in 2007) VirtualBox

  9. Boot Camp (software) - Wikipedia

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    Most methods for dual-booting with Linux on Mac rely on manual disk partitioning, and the use of an EFI boot manager such as rEFInd. [20] Despite Macs transitioning to Thunderbolt 3 in 2016, Boot Camp does not currently support running Windows with a Thunderbolt 3-powered External GPU (eGPU) unit under macOS High Sierra, macOS Mojave or macOS ...