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In 1996, Apple announced that they were supporting a Linux port to the PowerMacs. [9]PowerPC Macs can run Linux through both emulation and dual-booting ("bare metal"). The most popular PowerPC emulation tools for Mac OS/Mac OS X are Microsoft's Virtual PC, and the open-source QEMU.
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.
BootX is a graphical bootloader developed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt, which runs as an application or an extension to Mac OS 8 and 9 that allows Old World Apple computers to dualboot Linux. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
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 ...
An option also exists to force a universal binary to run as x86-64 code through Rosetta 2, even on an ARM-based machine. [18] Since macOS Ventura, users running virtual machines with Linux as a guest operating system can make use of Rosetta 2 to run x86-64 code compiled for Linux, [19] within the virtual machine. Rosetta 2 works as a runtime ...
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 ...
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 ...
Here is a simplified view of the Mac OS X Tiger system startup on a PowerPC Mac (on an Intel Mac, EFI replaces Open Firmware and boot.efi replaces BootX): Open Firmware activates, initializes the hardware, and then loads BootX. BootX loads the kernel, spins the pinwheel cursor, and loads any needed kernel extensions (kexts). The kernel loads ...