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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.
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 ...
XNU ("X is Not Unix") is the computer operating system (OS) kernel developed at Apple Inc. since December 1996 for use in the Mac OS X (now macOS) operating system and released as free and open-source software as part of the Darwin OS, which, in addition to being the basis for macOS, is also the basis for Apple TV Software, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS.
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 ...
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 ...
VMware Fusion can virtualize a multitude of operating systems, [3] including many older versions of macOS, which allows users to run older Mac software that can no longer be run under the current version of macOS, such as 32-bit [4] and PowerPC applications. [5]
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 ...
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 ]