iTunes for Linux

I just installed CrossOver Office in my SuSE 9.1 Professional, and I must say, I'm impressed. For people out there that don't know what I'm talking about; CrossOver Office is a product based on Wine, the Windows Emulator for Linux. Now, CrossOver Office does not require a working version of Windows, you can install software directly from CDs or your HD (in some cases it will download the program itself if its free - i just installed QuickTime in my Linux box automatically), and they will run almost (90%, and this is checked by me, so no, its not another CherryOS... lol).

Anyway, these people have ported iTunes to Linux, but its still unstable and they advise to install it 'only if you're a NUT Linux case', or smth of that nature. The link to their website is this

http://www.codeweavers.com/

And this is the portion that talks about iTunes.

http://www.codeweavers.com/site/account/download_beta/

#221637

Is this like :slant:

running a virtual itunes cuz i see 2 close buttons on it.

Might be a virtual PC version in a Linux emulation

#221638

Well, I'm not quite sure myself either, but I would suppose that its part of the CrossOver that installs Windows software, and does not just emulate it.

I haven't tried it myself yet, but I installed Photoshop 7 (CS not supported yet) and QuickTime and they run just fine. Hopefully, this is true in the case of iTunes as well.

#221639

Cool If u say it works Then i'll try this

Cya gonnna play doom3 on linux

#221642

hmm... I wouldn't advise you in installing it now. I would wait (an am waiting) at least a week or so until they release a somewhat stabler version. BUT, if you're willing to take the risk, do it and please tell us how it went.

see ya

#221644

checik this out just got a screenie

hee

#221648

Oohhh, flame war brewing. WINE == WINE is not an emulator.

It's a rewrite of the Windows libraries for Linux. Therefore, any app that runs in it should run at just-about-native speed (and sometimes faster, if the WINE folks are better coders). It doesn't have to emulate anything.

That is all.

#221654

contrasutra, you're right, of course. I just used the word "emulator" to generalize what it does, but its not exactly what it does. Anyway, from now on, I'll just call it... Wine.

p.s. h0axnuk3r, nice! what's the speed of that, does it run fast?

#221657

Hmm... Port Windows programs into Linux... Now THAT gives me an idea.. Maybe if THAT'S possible, then wouldn't it also be possible to port Mac programs into Windows or Linux? I'm not a Linux user, yet I find this interesting..

#221838

no, as closely related mac and linux are, they're still 2 different operating systems. You can run mac programs on a linux distro thats running on ppc operating system but if that was the case you could probably run osx on there anyway so no point to that. Other then that, cherryos (still dunno if its a scam or not) and pearpc are your best bets. >.< neither for linux

#221884

no, as closely related mac and linux are, they're still 2 different operating systems. You can run mac programs on a linux distro thats running on ppc operating system but if that was the case you could probably run osx on there anyway so no point to that. Other then that, cherryos (still dunno if its a scam or not) and pearpc are your best bets. >.< neither for linux

PearPC runs on linux. I believe that is its native platform too.

#221891

yep its true, im pretty sure PearPC was developed on Linux first, Then ported over to windows.

-bolero

#222145

Like most open-source programs, of course.

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