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What is Magenta -- in plain english? And what does binary compatible with iOS 5 mean?
by bprater 14y ago
What is Magenta -- in plain english? And what does binary compatible with iOS 5 mean?
- masklinn 14y ago> What is Magenta -- in plain english? Not sure what could be clearer than: > Magenta is an implementation of Darwin/BSD on top of the Linux kernel. > And what does binary compatible with iOS 5 mean? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_code_compatibility http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_code_compatibility That Magenta will run programs compiled for iOS5 unmodified (if they don't use APIs which haven't been reimplemented yet of course)
- shalmanese 14y agoThat's not clear at all. This guy has basically built an OS from scratch that can run on iPhones and supports iPhone apps without having to recompile them. Currently, only the base layer has been built so graphics/sound etc do not work but the goal is to emulate the entire iPhone OS. It's based on the linux kernel and the Darwin OS which is the open source core of the Mac OS X.
- johnbellone 14y ago"This guy has basically built an OS from scratch that can run on iPhones and supports iPhone apps without having to recompile them." No, that's completely wrong. Go read it, re-read it, and then do a Google search for binary-compatible.
- ericmoritz 14y agoThink of it as WINE project for iOS. He's building the libraries that iOS code depends on just like WINE recreated all the Windows DLLs so that Windows programs could run on Linux/OSX
- gcr 14y agoShe. http://crna.cc/ http://crna.cc/
- anxrn 14y agoThis is worse, its wrong. And IMO, parent couldn't be clearer.
- oh_sigh 14y agoI think this guy is a gal