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Why aren't all Mac applications easily portable to Linux?
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Mar 15, 20265019 viewsConfidence Score0%
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Since the Apple OS-X operating system is a UNIX derivative (BSD), and the underlying (Intel) Mac architecture is the same, why isn't it very straightforward to get Apple-specific applications running on Linux?
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OS X is actually (mostly) the proprietary graphical shell on top of BSD. To create an OS X GUI application, one has to follow the API which Apple has exposed, and hence this is not cross platform and not easily portable. That's why most libraries ar…
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