http://www.osnews.com/story/14335/Solaris_Boots_on_Intel_Macs Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 22 May 2013 11:46:45 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?114706 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114706 I've got 1.66ghz Core Duo Mac Mini and I boot OS X off of a faster-than-the-internal firewire drive.

So I've got an 80gb internal sata drive sitting empty.

I've attempted a few x86 Linux distros with too many issues to boot it. Ubuntu installs from the LiveCD without any trouble, but then you have to do some *heavy* tinkering to have it boot, so I endud up zapping it. Other distros weren't so lucky.

BeOS PE for Windows actually installs using darwine, but again, no way to boot it (and I'm SURE many devices wouldn't even be supported anyways, I was bored)

I figured SOMEBODY would have an easy-to-install ISO available by now . . .

It looks like Solaris may be first. I'm anxious to have a tinker OS; Solaris will do just fine. Fri, 14 Apr 2006 05:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Fuji257) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114709 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114709 That GENTOO live CD, not Ubuntu . . .

Edit is not working for me. Fri, 14 Apr 2006 05:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Fuji257) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114713 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114713 Solaris x86 should already have the EFI code which was used in the early Itanium builds - whats happen to those? Fri, 14 Apr 2006 05:38:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kaiwai) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114729 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114729 oh man this is so good. to have solaris on the mac in gona be awsome!!!! Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:09:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (poundsmack) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114731 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114731 So finally we can find pretty efficient computers that can run all major OSes including OS X (surprising isn't it ?), Windows, Linux, Solaris and soon we'll hear about *BSD (don't ask me when ! My crystal ball is broken...).

I hope other alternatives OSes will run on Macs as well. Boot camp seems to be a very good thing after all. Time will tell but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple would increase its market share on the PC Market. Fri, 14 Apr 2006 08:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (GStepper) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114733 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114733 I hope other alternatives OSes will run on Macs as well. Boot camp seems to be a very good thing after all. Time will tell but I wouldn't be surprised if Apple would increase its market share on the PC Market.

True; atleast if Windows is working on it, it'll be alot easier to move people to MacOS X once they have the hardware than trying to get them to first make the platform change.

One misconception I think they still need to address is the idea that there is no Microsoft Office, even though there is, and secondly, that you can't share documents, when you can; address those cross platform compatibility myths, and you'll find that the issues relating to MacOS X adoption evaporate. Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kaiwai) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114742 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114742 erh... and _what_ am i supposed to do with that when i already have mac os x running on it? Fri, 14 Apr 2006 10:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fryke) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114765 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114765 I've got 1.66ghz Core Duo Mac Mini and I boot OS X off of a faster-than-the-internal firewire drive.

No you don't. Recent benchmarks have shown that the only way the external drives are signficantly faster than internals are on old powerbooks that have FW800 ports. Since the Intel minis only have FW400, that's not possible. Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:19:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adam S) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114770 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114770 GNUStep on Intel CoreDuo Macs? Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (nbensa) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114774 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114774 "erh... and _what_ am i supposed to do with that when i already have mac os x running on it? "Obviously you've never used Solaris before....Don't get me wrong, OS X is a great desktop OS, but for any shortcoming in OS X, Solaris is perfect for picking up the slack. As for server services, it'll be hard to beat Solaris in that role... Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (zemplar) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114775 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114775 Soon its not going to be a question of what boots on the Intel Mac, its going to be what doesn't boot on the Intel Mac? Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:34:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (TaterSalad) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114780 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114780 So cool, I can't wait to try Solaris when I get my new mac...hopefully it's easer to install by then! Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (sp29) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114799 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114799 I'm not trying to be sarcastic. Seriously: what's a Mac? What is it at this point in time, that defines a Mac. What makes a Mac a "Mac"?

It's not a personal computer that stands out as using a different CPU architecture (PowerPC). Even when it was PowerPC inside, OSX was not the exclusive OS.

Although the Might Mouse looks like the traditional 1 button mouse, technically it functions like a multi-button mouse.

ADC is gone. Standard DVI now.

Firewire now seems more like an equal to USB rather than dominant on the Mac platform.

I'm not making complaints. Just observations. So what makes these machines unique now-a-days? With what are we able to still call these machines "Macs"?

I guess it's just a branding thing, because of their heritage and because only Apple makes them. It's like calling a Dell PC a "Dell." But I never heard anyone refer to an PC made by Alienware, HP, etc. litterally as "Alienware" or "HP." Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ThanhLy) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114806 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114806 I'm not making complaints. Just observations. So what makes these machines unique now-a-days? With what are we able to still call these machines "Macs"?

Good quality hardware that have also the added value to be able to run OS X.

(Not to mention the good design quality, especially important on notebook)

That's a Mac nowadays. Fri, 14 Apr 2006 15:53:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fepede) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114847 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114847 ''Good quality hardware''

You have misspelled "off the shelf". Fri, 14 Apr 2006 17:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Emil) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114870 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114870 >>No you don't. Recent benchmarks have shown that the only way the >>external drives are signficantly faster than internals are on old >>powerbooks that have FW800 ports. Since the Intel minis only have >>FW400, that's not possible.

That's more than pretentious to tell me which of my drives are faster than the other.

I don't give a ratsass what you've read, I know how to test HD speeds on my machine thank you very much.

But since you believe what you read see here to see you are dead wrong:

http://www.barefeats.com/mini01c.html

The Mac Mini's weakest point (that you can do something about) is the Hard Drive. The link I gave you (and countless others) shows the MM's internal drives are easily trounced by FW400. Anybody that uses and external boot drive on the MM knows you are full of crap. Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:22:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Fuji257) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114880 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114880 Well, I understand your points..

Still there are some caracteristics tha make the Macs unique:

- Original and elegant hardware and software design.
- Ease of use and ergonomy
- The Mac OS X, that only runs in an Apple Mac machines (the PC intel hack is just a "hack" and too slow), that is a solid, nice, pretty and full features OS

Not to mention that, if you know a female that uses a Mac to work, or at home, and you tell her how good, nice, and easy this machine is, and how much better and secure than Windows, OSX is... And then you talk to her about how the 'Aqua' wallpaper match the color of her eyes, you have it almost done.. even without paying a dinner.

Does it not make the Macs-OS X great computers ?

. Fri, 14 Apr 2006 18:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Angel--Fr@gzill@) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114971 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114971 Modding down, eh? So maybe you can name this superb HW not seen in normal x86 HW, OK? Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:08:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Emil) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114995 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114995 Fuji: Solaris will probably be a perfect match aswell seeing as you probably already have the best current desktop OS there is, and now you could get the most advanced/fun/awesome unix aswell Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:11:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aliquis) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114997 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114997 Why would you want MS-Office when there is OpenOffice? Does the small difference really make up for the price of the first one? Also openoffice documents should be MORE compatible with people, if there wasn't for the small fact that everyone uses MS-office already

But I rather force people to install openoffice then buying ms-office. Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aliquis) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?114998 http://www.osnews.com/thread?114998 Server? Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (aliquis) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?115017 http://www.osnews.com/thread?115017 "Why would you want MS-Office when there is OpenOffice"

Don't get me wrong I am a big fan of OpenOffice.org but NeOffice, which is our Mac native equivelant is not exactly up to par with the current OOo release. So unfortunately for now it's MS Office on OS X. Sat, 15 Apr 2006 02:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (chekr) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?115019 http://www.osnews.com/thread?115019 >> ''Good quality hardware''

>> You have misspelled "off the shelf".

Dude, I COMPLETELY 110% DO NOT agree with what your little joke implies.

But, its damn funny anyways. Mountain Dew right out the nose and everything . . . Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:31:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Fuji257) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?115021 http://www.osnews.com/thread?115021 >Fuji: Solaris will probably be a perfect match aswell seeing as you
> probably already have the best current desktop OS there is, and now
> you could get the most advanced/fun/awesome unix aswell

Thanks,
I hope I like it, I used it once years ago, but I'm sure it's changed alot. Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:33:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Fuji257) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?115023 http://www.osnews.com/thread?115023 If I had any more points I would mod you up! Sat, 15 Apr 2006 03:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (suryad) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?115039 http://www.osnews.com/thread?115039 Why would you want MS-Office when there is OpenOffice? Does the small difference really make up for the price of the first one? Also openoffice documents should be MORE compatible with people, if there wasn't for the small fact that everyone uses MS-office already

But I rather force people to install openoffice then buying ms-office.

OpenOffice under X on os x is shite. Seriously. I gave it all up and switched to latex. Sat, 15 Apr 2006 06:44:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kamper) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?115076 http://www.osnews.com/thread?115076 Some say Macs have good quality hardware, frankly some components are ok and some aren't. Having had a PB DVD drive fail (just) out of warranty ... some it hurts.

If , however, you compare with standard PCs there is a difference: ALL Mac components are certified compatible for (OSX) the operating system they expect to run.

So by all means tell me the Mac is overpriced but do compare it with a system where ALL the drivers are certified for XP.

The mess of cheap (Windows) hardware, uncertified drivers and so forth are paying the salaries of many support staff around the world. So perhaps it isn't all bad news ..... Sat, 15 Apr 2006 13:27:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (ameasures) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?115188 http://www.osnews.com/thread?115188 OpenOffice under X on os x is shite.

Just to clarify, I was not just trolling here. When running under X on osx, OpenOffice just does not integrate well. It doesn't comply with all the ordinary shortcut keystrokes such as command-tab for app switching (it is lumped in with all other X windows) or command-(x|c|v) for cut/copy/past among others. It doesn't use the regular system fonts and can only use the very limited selection that comes with X (at least Apple's version, which I'm obviously running). I'm sure it is possible to get the fonts installed properly but I haven't figured it out yet. The scrolling (I use the trackpad on my pb) is also wildly inaccurate.

I really have no trouble with normal OpenOffice, like on other *nixen or on windows and I'd still be using it
if the above problems didn't exist. I'm happy I got into latex though, because it's wicked cool and I like plain text source files much better than fancy graphical editing for many things :p Sun, 16 Apr 2006 02:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kamper) Comments