If you are running an Ubuntu derivative, you’ll find Wine located in the Software Center.
I will demonstrate the process on Elementary OS Freya and install the latest version of Wine. What exactly does that mean? To make this easier, let’s walk through the process of installing Wine and then installing and running a Windows application with the tool. In fact, the developers of Wine have gone out of their way to make the compatibility layer as user-friendly as possible. You might think, because of the complexity of bringing such a tool to life, that Wine would be complicated to install and use. Granted most of the Wine work is focused on games, but you’ll still find a healthy list of productivity apps available.
To date there are thousands of fully supported applications that now run on Wine (check out the application database for a full list) and that list is ever growing.
Over time more and more applications were supported until Wine became a must-have tool for many users and businesses (and especially Linux gamers). If you wanted Notepad, Calculator, or Solitaire…you were good to go.īut then something interesting happened. It wasn’t perfect, and the supported apps were limited. The name is now simply Wine.Įffectively, what Wine did was to allow Windows applications to run on the Linux platform. The name originally stood for Wine Is Not an Emulator (because everyone mistook the tool for a Windows emulator). To overcome this weakness, a compatibility layer called WINE was created. This issue was especially critical in the world of business ─ where Windows desktop applications could make or break productivity. Last edited by cuvtixo 18th May 2007 at 01:48 AM.Back in the mid 90s and early 00s, Linux, being a fledgling operating system, suffered from a severe lack of useful applications. Easily imports DV video through IEEE-1394 (firewire) and allow detailed editing and transition effect for both video and audio. Kino is open source non-linear video editing at it's best. Cinelerra solves three main tasks: capturing, editing and compositing. Read moreĬinelerra is a highly advanced and professional video editing, but still remains open source. Eventhough it may not be able to do avanced editing like non-linear video editors - it has powerfull features for processing your video clips. VirtualDub is an open source video processor/editor. This open source project is great for DVD/DivX converting and editing.
I understand you probably can't do this, but for others- alternatives to Final Cut Pro Īvidemux offers simple video editing for your PC, but packs many more features than that. Your install dvd probably has Universal Binaries for both PowerPC and x86, so PearPC could be a decent solution, although I could be wrong. They are essentially a hardware company- (which happens to have great support for their machines) Perhaps you want M$ Office on your machine? Because really OSX has nothing else to offer except perhaps compatibility with other Mac machines. Your best bet is to switch to linux entirely. If you are interested in running unix tools on the HFS file systems, you should look into Darwin, and the now defunct OpenDarwin, but you will not be able to run the normal Mac GUI and most all of the commercial Macintosh applications. You could also look at sites about putting full OSX on the AppleTV, which would be applicable (and a preferable solution.)
There are sites on the net which have instructions on how to do this for x86 OS X, which unfortunately has complicated hardware issues as well as questionable legal status.
Theoretically, you would want to install X86 OSX as a native OS on your machine, preferably on its own partition, but I believe this might be against the latest Apple license agreement, which I think requires OSX to be installed only on Apple hardware.