Run Linux like a Mac!

By The Inquirer
09:46 Jun 17, 2009 | 5 Comments
Tags: linux | mac | operating | systems

Free as a bird, shiny as a fresh penny!

Linux users who want to run their computers so that they look like Macs can pick up this Mac4Lin distribution here.

Designed by Anirudh Acharya of San Diego, California, Mac4Lin looks like the real thing. Only instead of a fully blessed by Steve Jobs Leopard OS X under the bonnet, it runs something which is not proprietary and is free.

Mac4Lin supports GNOME 2.26 and is backwards compatible. It is unlikely to appeal to the Linux purist, who probably wouldn't stoop to stick anything like a Windows 7 look on Linux either.

However it should appeal to those who want to sail up the nasal passages of Mac fanbois by having something Applish running on a PC that did not cost a king's ransom to look that way. Not that we know any people like that - nosiree!

You can probably run it on better hardware, too.

Okay, we're stopping now.

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5 Comments

iamthemaxx Jun 17, 2009 1:50 PM	Interesting, there has been a few attempts at mimicking OS X but a lot of the ones I have seen are just crap.
hello0011 Jun 18, 2009 4:42 PM	how long until apple decides it wants to sue the developers of mac4lin i wonder..
Not_Pissed Jun 19, 2009 2:10 AM	as long as it's not as shite as plasma.
TheSecret Jun 29, 2009 9:23 PM	Why? The effect is only at surface level. A few minutes of using it and it will be obvious you're not on a mac.
wayke Nov 2, 2010 11:07 PM	Apple will sue when the os hosting the look is as restrictive and lacking in functions as MAC OS .

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