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On 03/31/2015 09:05 PM, Friedhelm Dohmann [email protected] [eccopro] wrote:
> What about Wine on a MAC OS? Greg used Homebrew to load Wine and left
> us a great article with installation instructions at
> http://www.creativeservices.us/whmcs/knowledgebase/41/EccoPro-on-Wine-for-Mac-OS-operation.html
OS X's core is a POSIX compliant operating system (OS) built on top of
the XNU kernel, with standard Unix facilities available from the command
line interface. Apple has released this family of software as a free and
open source operating system named Darwin. On top of Darwin, Apple
layered a number of components, including the Aqua interface and the
Finder, to complete the GUI-based operating system which is OS X.
Since OS X is POSIX compliant, many software packages written for the
*BSDs, Linux, or other Unix-like systems can be recompiled to run on it.
I run ecco without problems on Debian, Fedora, openSUSE and Gentoo based
systems with no problem under Wine. (Slackware systems may require
Crossover).
The main difference between Apple's OSX and Linux is you have pay for
it. Unlike Windows, the developers of the Linux kernel take pains to
assure compatibility with older M$ Windows applications like EccoPro,
while new Windows only have the same name and the same owner, for folks
that have an appetite for punishment.