Timeline for Binary compatibility between Mac OS X and Linux
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| Jun 11, 2020 at 12:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot | Commonmark migration | |
| S Jun 3, 2017 at 3:37 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Changed link to a more precise link. |
| Jun 3, 2017 at 3:08 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| May 4, 2017 at 11:37 | history | edited | Alex Stragies | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added archive.org link for defunct homepage |
| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:36 | history | edited | CommunityBot | replaced http://unix.stackexchange.com/ with https://unix.stackexchange.com/ | |
| Dec 13, 2014 at 22:22 | comment | added | GnP | bitrotten? I'll show myself out. | |
| Dec 10, 2014 at 8:26 | history | edited | Warren Young | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added Darling project reference; added LKML link documenting the death of iBCS; noted that OpenBSD and NetBSD can also run Linux binaries |
| Sep 24, 2013 at 15:30 | history | edited | Warren Young | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added some links; minor grammar and clarity tweaks |
| Feb 20, 2012 at 9:11 | comment | added | Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen | So what you say is essentially, that if operating system X provides the same services as operating system Y, then a binary can run under both. This is true, but require a deliberate effort for system X. I am unaware of any operating system being compatible in this way with OS X. | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 0:47 | comment | added | mattdm | @Jörg W Mittag — also, you needed to have the system libraries from the other platform available. This may have been the basis for their suit against AutoZone. But honestly I forget the details and barely care anymore. :) | |
| Feb 24, 2011 at 0:44 | comment | added | mattdm | One of the reasons this isn't a big deal for Linux programs → other platforms is: there's no significant Linux-only apps for which source isn't available. You want to run your program on OS X or Solaris, recompile it, and there ya go. There may be a little porting to do where the code was written in Linux-specific ways, but generally that's not a lot of work, especially compared to maintaining the compatibility layer. FreeBSD's Linux compatibility was a big deal back when Netscape was a binary distributed for Linux only, and probably still is used for Adobe Flash Player. | |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 23:39 | history | edited | Warren Young | CC BY-SA 2.5 | Clarity reorg, minor bits of prose tightening, and added speculation para at end about porting FreeBSD feature to OS X |
| Feb 23, 2011 at 2:06 | history | answered | Warren Young | CC BY-SA 2.5 |