Run Linux apps on other platforms with LINA

Run Linux apps on other platforms with LINA

Posted Sep 27, 2007 21:59 UTC (Thu) by moxfyre (subscriber, #13847)
Parent article: Run Linux apps on other platforms with LINA

Um... why????

Qt and GTK toolkits already support Windows, so your GNOME and KDE apps can be made to run on Windows, and *many* already have (e.g. Gaim/Pidgin, Inkscape, etc.)

This seems like Wine in reverse! But Wine is only needed because there are so many *closed-source* Windows apps. If they were open-source, the worthwhile applications would likely get ported to Linux in a heartbeat. LINA seems unnecessary, because most of the cool Linux apps are open source and thus can be ported without an emulation layer. Open source projects tend to make efforts towards portability too. And I don't know of any closed-source Linux apps that don't have Windows versions as well... anyone?

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