Here's the link,

http://osx86project.org/

It was in wired news last week.

larry

On 8/13/05, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steve Gibson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: grc.news,grc.news.feedback
> Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2005 10:23 PM
> Subject: Apple Mac OSX cracked for Intel PCs
> 
> Folks,
> 
> You may have heard, here or elsewhere, that Apple Computer was
> planning to switch to Intel processors. Paving the way for that,
> they created a developer release of their Tiger OSX operating
> system which they "locked" by requiring that it use TPM (Trusted
> Platform Module) security.
> 
> Well ... that lasted for about a week.
> 
> Hackers gleefully plunged in and easily removed the TPM
> dependent code from the Mac OSX kernel.  Today, Bittorent sites
> are buzzing with a cracked version of the OSX developer system
> which can, as a consequence, run on any Intel based PC.
> 
> If you're curious, Google for: tiger-x86.tar.bz2
> 
> The code is set up to run within a VMWare system, but there are
> sites containing step-by-step explanations of how to install and
> boot these files from a PC's hard drive.
> 
> So ...
> 
> Did the entire world just swing around and change?
> 
> Could Apple NOT have known this would happen?
> 
> If so, could this possibly be deliberate on Apple's part?
> 
> This genie cannot be put back into its bottle.
> 
> Apple's OSX for the Mac is now running on standard Intel PCs.
> ________________________________________________________________
> Steve.
> 
> 

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