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[ Mac Software ]

[v19.2] Parallels Desktop – Only best virtual machine solution on Mac OS

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Parallels Desktop for Mac is an extremely excellent virtual machine software running on Mac OS – proven, trusted and widely praised. It allows users to easily, seamlessly run Windows, Linux and other operating systems or applications at the same time under Mac OS X, saving the users’ trouble of repeatedly rebooting the computer in order to switch between different OS.

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[ Mac Software ]

PlayOnMac – Run your Windows software and games on Mac easily

If you want to run Windows programs on Mac, there are nothing more than two solutions: one is to install a virtual machine; the other is to install tools such as compatibility layer. The disadvantages of virtual machines (such as Parallels Desktop, VirtualBox) are lower performance and larger disk space occupation. While tools based on compatibility layer such as Wine/CrossOver are too complicated to configure for beginner users.

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[ Linux Software ]

PlayOnLinux – Run your Windows games and applications on Linux easily

PlayOnLinux is a free graphical frontend for Wine on Linux platform (it is called PlayOnMac and PlayOnBSD on Mac and FreeBSD platforms), developed by Quentin Pâris and Aymeric Petit from France in 2007, written in Python and Bash. It allows Linux users to install and run Windows games and applications with ease.

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[ Mac Software ]

WineBottler – Turn Windows-based programs into Mac apps

Users who are new to the Mac world from Windows often run into some nagging problems. For example, some software are only available on Windows; and some web pages must be opened using Microsoft Internet Explorer. For lazy computer users, it is not realistic to have them install an extra Windows OS or use a virtual machine such as Apple’s Boot Camp, VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation or VirtualBox to solve the problem. This case, you can give WineBottler a try.

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[ Linux Software ], [ Mac Software ], System-Related

QEMU – A generic and open-source machine emulator and virtualizer

QEMU (short for Quick Emulator) is a free and open-source processor emulator widely used on GNU/Linux platform, written by Fabrice Bellard from France. It primarily converts the binary code written for a specific processor to another through a special ‘recompiler’, so as to realize the OS virtualization.

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System-Related

Cygwin – A complete simulation of UNIX environment

For beginners using Windows who are interested in the C/C++ language (anyway, you need to compile your C/C++ programs) or Linux embedded system development, the big headache is switching back and forth between Windows & Linux. Even you have to continuously reboot system in order to achieve the purpose, very troublesome. Cygwin just solved this problem.

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[ Linux Software ], [ Mac Software ], System-Related

VirtualBox – Best free and open-source virtual machine software

VirtualBox (formerly called Sun VirtualBox, Sun xVM VirtualBox and Innotek VirtualBox, now its full name should be Oracle VM VirtualBox) is a powerful cross-platform, open-source and x86-based virtual machine (VM) software. It allows users to virtual other x86-based operating systems on 32-bit or 64-bit Windows, Solaris and Linux operating systems, that is to say, the user can install and run Solaris, Windows, DOS, Linux, OS/2 Warp, OpenBSD or FreeBSD system as the client operating system in VirtualBox.

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