Okay, I've been keeping an eye on this list since OS X came out, I think, and haven't noticed this one: I want to put OS X on one of my PC's. Since OS X is based on BSD + MachKernel (to boot on Macs in the first place), and I have some introduction to what is involved porting *nix from x86 to PPC courtesy of Debian Linux, I think this has to be do-able. BeOS was available in binary for compilation on IA32 or PPC processor formats, and seems to represents the third underpinning of OS X, by the way in which OS X handles processing (CPU and GPU and pre-emptive fetching). Has anyone tried? The Darwin Project is interesting, but limited, and you really don't end up with OS X in a number of respects. As to why do this, it is because I like the way OS X looks and handles on my B&W G4/400; but I have much more powerful processing in my existing AMD 2.2 GHz CPU and NVidia FX5200-128MB AGP8x GPU and PC100 vs. DDR266, and cannot afford to get a G5 anytime soon. What really kicked this off was finding a pair of 200GB Maxtors on sale, taking them home, and finding I would need yet another card upgrade before I could use them on my Mac; and would still be stuck with 400MHz vs. 2.2GHz for processing DV; and finding that a new DVD-RW for my PC would be <$70 versus >$100 for a slower and less-capable Mac compatible. Why thow out the baby with the bath-water? TIA, David
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