Is anyone running OS X 10.4 x86?

[Jose Medeiros]

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 <bard at allusion.net> 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.
>
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