Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 3rd Dec 2002 07:17 UTC
Terra Soft Solutions, Inc. will announce tomorrow world's first consumer priced ATX form-factor PowerPC motherboard with full Linux support. Terra Soft, also creators of Yellow Dog Linux, will be selling both the PPC motherboard and a fully equipped computer that will be capable of running YDL 2.3. This will give a new face to the consumer Linux landscape, as Linux effectivelly gets its own platform rather than getting installed side by side with other OSes. Check inside for two pages with pictures of the hardware, information and an interview with TerraSoft's co-founder, Kai Staats.
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Don Cox wrote:
> "However, the EULA of MacOS prohibits its usage on non-Apple
> hardware (it is of course perfectly legal to use MOL to boot
> a second Linux though)."
But until 2002, nearly all PPC hardware except some IBMs are Apple hardware or Apple licensed, so that wasn't a problem at all. You can get your i/PowerSomething, put Linux on it, install MOL and run MacOS X from that. After all, it's Apple hardware.
Now you can get a PPC mobo with Linux, install MOL and run MacOS X. Or even running directly MacOS X (hm, maybe only Darwin, not MacOS X) from that.
We can only wonder what will be Apple's reaction if those mobos become popular and people start to run MacOS X on non-Apple hardware. I personally believe that they will mobilize their cease-and-desist army on MOL developers if that starts to hurt Apple's hardware sales.