Apples bread and butter has always been there hardware. otherwise they would port their OS to wintel machines now. From a conversation with a Mac employee, they have it running but they know that their hardware sales would drop. btw, John, I switched all my LTSP servers over to slackware - I know your preference for slackware. It was easier getting my RAID controller cards configured with slack than any of those Debian based distros Jerry
-----Original Message----- From: HASS, JOHN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of HASS, JOHN Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 9:14 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: RE: [info-tech] Apple on Intel I use pearpc to emulate mac os X it does not currently work with 10.4 but 10.3.9 and lower it does. It can be slow at times, but it works well when I am developing software I am able to test in multiple enviroments. It emulates a ppc. But it runs on any X86 based processor. Including on top of Window$, Linux, or BSD. I don't think it would be very hard to fake out an install to make the software think it is running on an Intel based Mac. I could be wrong Apples bread and butter has always been there hardware. http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ --John _____ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Lance Lennon Sent: Wed 6/8/2005 8:05 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: Re: [info-tech] Apple on Intel The Darwin kernel has run on Intel since its inception. The GUI was not available on the Intel platform so it was all CLI. As far as thinking that you could run OS X on a PC, that is probably not going to be true right out of the box. There will probably be safeguards against non apple branded equipment. Having said that, it is not impossible to believe that it can not be ported that way if it can run on Intel and since most parts is just parts. There are kids running Linux on X Boxes in the world so nothing is impossible This is the joy of open source. Perhaps Microsoft should be taking notes -- "The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." ~Albert Einstein -- Lance L. Lennon District Technology Director Eagle grove Community School District 515-448-5143 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] --------------------------------------------------------- Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ --------------------------------------------------------- --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by the server02.aea8.k12.ia.us server.]
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