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Man Boots Mac OS X on Asus UMPC, Shoots Video

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 19th Dec 2006 22:33 UTC

Apple's Mac OS X has been successfully used to boot up an Asus R2H ultra-mobile PC, which runs the operating system slowly but surely. To minimise claims that all the still photography is faked, the start-up process has been captured on video.

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by sb56637 on Tue 19th Dec 2006 23:25 UTC

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2006-05-11

I wonder if Linux could work on that device too. Including the stylus input and WiFI and power management stuff.

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RE: Linux

by orestes on Wed 20th Dec 2006 01:04 in reply to "Linux"

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2005-07-06

Almost certainly, given a sufficiently motivated user.

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RE: Linux

by Xaero_Vincent on Wed 20th Dec 2006 18:40 in reply to "Linux"

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2006-08-18

If MacOS X can run on an unsupported mobile PC, Linux certainly could as well; linux is meant to run on a far broader number of systems. Mac OS X on any system beyond Macintosh is newsworthy because drivers for white box systems are so scarce.

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RE[2]: Linux

by arielb on Wed 20th Dec 2006 19:19 in reply to "RE: Linux"

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2006-11-15

yes of course...that was kinda my point. linux and bsd can run on anything because with open source, someone will figure a way

Now here's the challenge: I have this xbox 360...

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