Quartz for Linux

[Lasker]

hi guys, is there any engine or something that is like the graphic engine Quarks in Apple MAC OS X? that have the animation stuff and more in the Macintosh? just curious :D

[xUnix]

Try using KDE. :)

[markwolfe Veteran]

It is "quartz" that Apple uses. I corrected the title.

Quartz is, I believe, an Apple thing, and is not free. It belongs to them.

Linux uses X (in particular, free versions of it, like XFree86 or Xorg) for its GUI system. To use Quartz, you would have to replace X with Quartz, and apps written for one don't work in the other.

An example of this, in the opposite direction is getting X apps to run on a Mac. You need to install X on your Mac to run these apps. Now, since Xfree and Xorg have free versions (talking freedom here), the source can be used and modified as necessary to run on any other platform.

[Lasker]

  markjensen said:

It is "quartz" that Apple uses.  I corrected the title.

Quartz is, I believe, an Apple thing, and is not free.  It belongs to them.

Linux uses X (in particular, free versions of it, like XFree86 or Xorg) for its GUI system.  To use Quartz, you would have to replace X with Quartz, and apps written for one don't work in the other.

An example of this, in the opposite direction is getting X apps to run on a Mac.  You need to install X on your Mac to run these apps.  Now, since Xfree and Xorg have free versions (talking freedom here), the source can be used and modified as necessary to run on any other platform.

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thanks Mark, I was just wonder to see something in Linux that act like Quartz, maybe someday who knows :cool:

[xxdesmus]

  markjensen said:

An example of this, in the opposite direction is getting X apps to run on a Mac.  You need to install X on your Mac to run these apps.  Now, since Xfree and Xorg have free versions (talking freedom here), the source can be used and modified as necessary to run on any other platform.

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A friend of mine did this the other day. He got Xfree and gnome working inside OSX Tiger. He was pretty happy with himself. He said the compile time took forever though. :laugh:

[gnuman]

Yah but Mac is based on BSD so it wouldn't be too difficult to do it. If you wanted a faster way all you'd have to do is download Open Darwin and install Gnome as your Window manager.

Open Darwin is basically Mac OS X without GUI.

[markwolfe Veteran]

  Lasker said:

thanks Mark, I was just wonder to see something in Linux that act like Quartz, maybe someday who knows  :cool:

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What effects or operation were you interested in seeing on Linux. Chances are, most of it has already been done. Some of it is experimental, though.

  gnuman said:

Open Darwin is basically Mac OS X without GUI.

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:p That's like describing a drink as a "Long Island Iced Tea without the booze". :rofl:

[smoke]

More like long island ice tea without the booze or tea bags (just water). =p Darwin the kernel is only like 1/4th of OS X.

[El_Cu_Guy]

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Darwin the kernel is only like 1/4th of OS X.

Darwin is the core OS, not the kernel.

[smoke]

Whatever, my point still stands. It's over simplifying to say darwin is Mac OS X without GUI. You're not going to download darwin and then install quartz. There are other things other than the GUI that darwin alone is missing that makes up OS X.