Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Oct 2006 15:49 UTC, submitted by Governa
Mac OS X 10.4.8 will now run on any generic x86-based PC. Well, almost. Kernel coder Semthex has posted what he claims is an entirely legal release of the Mac operating system's foundation layer. The only snag: you can't boot into the familiar GUI. To date, the version of Mac OS X for x86 processors has relied on kernel add-ons to anchor the software to Apple's own hardware through the machines' Trusted Platform Module. Much of the core code is independent of it, however, and available for access to all and sundry via Apple's own source code licence. What Semthex has claimed to do is produce code that essentially bypasses the TPM stuff yet stays within the Apple licence.
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2005-10-12
Its a really strange argument. When you run Office or Photoshop on a Mac, and print to an Epson printer, or maybe use a Minolta negative scanner, or backup to an external usb drive, or import from your Canon in raw, how exactly is this 'a system designed top to bottom'?
On the other hand, when you use Office over XP to interface to Exchange Server....maybe that really is a system designed top to bottom. At least in the respects that you might feel count, if any of them really do count.
This is just silliness. Not my own phrase, but we need to stop claiming as advantages things which the Mac does not have, and which would not be advantages even if they did.