Re: Is anyone running OS X 10.4 x86?
Jose Medeiros <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.ports.ppc.mol.general |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
My apologies if I some how offended some one, since Apple's hardware will be running on Intel Chips in a few months, the focus of the list will be running Linux X86 with Mac OS X86. I just got it to work on my AMD 64 Chip. Jose On 10/3/05, Dan Potter <[email protected]> wrote: > On Oct 3, 2005, at 4:40 PM, Michael Moore wrote: > > > I agree with Hex Star here. Anything we can do which won't force Apple > > to be a Microsoft is probably a good thing. Anything that we do that > > could endanger the MOL project is probably a bad thing (such as making > > it a discussion board for where to get software Illegally.). > > It's also waaay, waaaay off topic for this list. MOL has nothing to > do with OSX x86, despite being about MacOS. Might be cool to > eventually sub in x86 support, but: a) you could already do that, > just not for OSX; and b) it would just be another virtual machine at > that point, like Xen. The interesting thing about MOL is that it is > PPC based. My guess is that once OSX x86 is really out, the real > interest will lie in something like Xen and a modified Darwin kernel. > > Downloading OSX x86 may or may not be stealing, but it is definitely > disrespecting their licenses, and it's because of licenses that > things like Linux can exist the way they do (GPL). People get > themselves in a fervor whenever someone breaks the GPL and includes > code into their proprietary product... the reverse respect is only > fair even if you disagree with it. > > > If you have a need for OSX x86, and can't afford it, there are places > > you can go and rent time on them by the hour. If you've got a really > > good reason to need it, you can probably find a sponsor. > > Actually that's not legal either, last I heard from Apple (2nd or 3rd > hand, but still). They were even telling people no who wanted to pool > to buy one and share it. NDAs and all that. > > _______________________________________________ > mol-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.maconlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/mol-general >