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LINA was a piece of
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that enabled users to run applications compiled for
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under
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and
Mac OS X macOS (; previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is a Unix operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac (computer), Mac computers. Within the market of ...
with a native look and feel. Version 1.00 beta1 was released in October 2009 and was available a
the Open Lina
web site. However, that domain is now up for sale.


Release

The latest binary version, still a beta, was released on October 15, 2009. As the tool was open sourced under the terms of the
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v2, its source code had been made available since July 19, 2007.


See also

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Compatibility layer In software engineering, a compatibility layer is an interface that allows binaries for a legacy or foreign system to run on a host system. This translates system calls for the foreign system into native system calls for the host system. With som ...


References


External links


openlina.com at archive.orgYoutube channel
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