Ira Abramov wrote:
btw: can OS-X run on non mac hardware ?
No.
Not officially that is. No need to look too far with Google and other
tools, I found several locations around the web with torrents of the
Developper Release DVD and even a pre-installed VMWARE vDisk to download
and run OSX as a guest.
..
the official install on the DVD ISO is
indeed looking for some kind of hardware DRM or whatnot, but the working
system works with minimal patching.
Latest news is that the last build (out about two weeks ago, IIRC) of
Mac OS X/86 does not respond well to the above mentioned ministrations
and refuses to boot. It will also not run apps compiled against the
previous version and apps compiled against it will not run on said
version. I believe that Apple are testing the market to see how people
crack their protection mechanisms and the final version will (a) not be
interoperatable with the dev-kits and (b) be (almost) impossibly hard to
crack.
so don't hold your breath waiting for an OS X that you can dual boot
with your Linux running generic x86.
I'm holding my breath for the Intel PowerBooks, as I said :)
This seems to be the only way to go - if you want Apple's OS, you're
going to have to shell out for Apple's hardware, and with the current
local Apple distributer (Yeda), this is going to be quite costly: Yeda
collects a large premium on Apple's products - a quick back of the
envelope doodle suggests something close to 100% - and their support is
horrible. It appears almost like they are not interested in selling
Apple merchandise. I wonder if someone pays them a premium for behaving
that way...
--
Oded
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