Unfortunately, you still can't decompress or decode the Mac-specific archive formats BinHex (files with the. Linux users are, however, in a better position than most because there is an HFS file system driver available in kernel 2.x.x that allows Linux to mount storage devices that use HFS. It's not a problem unique to Linux users - the same issue arises if you use Windows or other Unix OSs.

The problem is that all storage media in the Macintosh world use their own file system called HFS (Hierarchical File System), which can make it hard to access Mac-formatted disks. And there complaints a few years ago that they weren’t feeding back fully into the KDE browser project either with the Safari code.(IDG) - Have you ever had a large number of desktop publishing files on a Mac-formatted Zip disk and wanted to transfer them to your Linux box? Did you ever want to copy a movie trailer from a Mac CD-ROM or use data from Mac hard disks? You probably know that it can be painful. They dumped CUPS and the SMB implementations in preference for proprietary solutions. Since then they’ve increasingly taken but increasingly not given. That’s one of the ways they can back from bankruptcy. Apple’s success was built on open source a few decades ago. But right now it’s probably a proof of concept more than an actual tool.īut even that is a huge achievement and I like the fact they’re putting pressure on Apple too to be more open and inclusive. These might let you configure your Mac hardware if you’re running Linux on the bare metal for whatever reason. The only exceptions might be some commands peculiar to the macOS shell like defaults, or system configuration utils. Pretty much any CLI or GNU tool through things like Homebrew are very likely to be Linux-first anyway.

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