Mac look alike

[Joep L. Blom]

Odd wrote:
> mdovell at comcast.net wrote:
>> In all due respects to Apple let me say this. 1) The look and flow of
>>  apples OS I find to be better than that of Windows. Granted windows
>> has made great strides (remember the Windows 95 = Mac 89 shirts?). 2)
>> Unfortuatly what Apple has people pay for for the most part is the 
>> design. Apple didn't invent the mp3 or the laptop or the smartphone
>> etc. Much of what they have simply looks better
> 
> Yep. "Shiny" is what Apple does best.
> 
>> 3) The differences apple did have frankly getting to be less and
>> less. Back in the day it ran on the Motorola 68000 family of
>> processors (as did Atari and Amiga) then it went to Power PC...then
>> it switched to intel chips it even had Power Computing as a clone
>> maker until it was bought out. Their OS switched to a more unix based
>> OS starting ten or so years ago (see 
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Unix_history-simple.en.svg )
>> Granted it isn't fully open source.
>>
>> I've already heard arguments of does the operating system really
>> matter these days? I'd say the basics of most computers is simply
>> getting on the internet and having an office suite.
> 
> I agree. The OS doesn't really matter. Apps matter. Linux
> has most of what it needs. The only thing I miss is in media
> production, ans then specifically in the DAW segment. I wish
> there was something as good as Acid Pro on Linux. That's
> the only reason I'm still running Windows on my workstation.
> 
>> Once you get to the concept of open sourced products it makes it much
>> easier to change things.
> 
> Indeed. You have the source code, so in theory you can add/subtract
> anything you like. That's the great thing about open source.
> 
>> I'll admit I've ran that whole Mac4lin program and it actually works
>> quite well. I have the same doc anyway and then there's the
>> background. I could easily fool most people into saying it's a Mac.
>> It reminds me about the logic of a luxury car. If you take a entry
>> level car today and take it back in time say 30 years and that
>> probably was luxury. If you modify something for the look and feel
>> (granted as long as you aren't selling it for a profit because that's
>> a source of lawsuits) you can mimic anything you want.
> 
> Sure.
> 
If you want to look at a good DAW application, take a look Ardour> 
http://ardour.org/

I think it fulfills most( all?) of your wishes.
Joep