Zune for all platforms

[nicholas]

Wasn't there some talk of porting Zune to Linux at some point?

That would be great as being able to recompile MUI apps to run natively on Linux would open up a whole new world of opportunities.

[nicholas]

Zune actually started out on Linux IIRC. The port hasn't been maintained though.

Yes it indeed was but author gave up soon after releasing it to the public.

http://www.reocities.com/SiliconValley/park/3883/zune/snaps/z0115.html

Thanks, my memory isn't as bad I thought!

[nicholas]

IMNSHO it should be done like this:

1) Get Zune to fully implement all publicly known MUI 4 functionality to achieve 100% source code compatibility.
2) Make Zune work on OS 3.x, OS4, AROS and MorphOS.
3) Once all that is achieved stop tracking MUI 4 and do whatever the feck the Zune developers like whilst keeping Zune working on all four platforms.

[nicholas]

This is just nonsense, for so many reasons.

MUI is bound by "the Amiga way", which is totally different from "the UNIX way" that Linux follows. I have never heard anything about using MUI on Linux, it's totally pointless anyways, there is no "AmigaOS" compatibility layer in Linux (and for a reason, noone needs it). What you think of is probably various efforts to create bridges between toolkits used on X11 and MUI, to make porting of X11 applications to Amiga systems easier by using MUI.

No. What I think of is MUI for Linux.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=660685&postcount=96

[nicholas]

Which is what I wanted back in the 90ies, which is what Apple did

Very nice!

Similar to the Q/Box idea from what little I remember of it.

Doing what you suggest with a mixture of Haiku and AROS code would be the dream desktop for me.