Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 5th Nov 2009 21:49 UTC
We already had the news about Psystar's Rebel EFI possibly including open source code, but now we have another story which doesn't really seem to bode well for the small Florida clone maker. Gizmodo has a story on an interesting customer experience.
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RE[3]: Looks to me - lshw
by darknexus on Fri 6th Nov 2009 17:24
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Well, they'd at least need to develop a nicer interface than the CLI for most of their customers, I'd imagine. I don't know if lshw is available, but there are several other ways to get a system's entire specification in OS X. Build this into Rebel EFI with an option to send to Psystar or save the output, and that's all they'd need. Sometimes I wonder if Psystar is deliberately trying to look shady, or if they've just got more financial backing than common sense.
RE[4]: Looks to me - does seem like it
by jabbotts on Fri 6th Nov 2009 18:26
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Why even have them develop some special tool; lshw must be easy to get a hold of and compile against darwin if it's not already in there. The Debian hardware checker works this way already. You run lshw with the command switch they list on the site then past the results into a large text box and out comes the results; supported, supported with driverXYZ or unsupported.