On Jan 4, 2006, at 8:02 AM, de Runtz, Lars wrote:
This list would welcome unsupported x86 OS X's here, right?
I found some things on the web, that look like there will be some
x86 OS X's on non-Apple harwardware. Its a matter of time before
XPostFacto has to branch out to X86PostFacto.
I be careful about speculating about this until actual Mac/Intel
systems ship. The current developer versions of OS X can be hacked,
apparently, but that's because the current developer systems are
generic PC's put together to get functional systems into the hands of
developers quickly. The actual shipping hardware is likely to be
different.
Also, the mechanism that Apple uses to keep it running on their
hardware only is highly unlikely to be exposed to any application
developer, so applications compiled on the development systems will
work, but the final shipping OS won't work on the development systems.
I really doubt Apple's going to make it as easy as running
XPostFacto; moreover, given that Apple has already said that they
will actively prevent people from running OS X on non-Apple hardware.
On the technical side, XPostFacto is largely a patch manager to patch
legacy hardware drivers back from Darwin into OSX. I REALLY doubt
that whatever mechanism Apple will use to enforce the Apple HW only
restriction is going to be open sourced in Darwin, so Ryan won't have
what he needs in the new versions of Darwin, and it'll likely be
illegal (under the DMCA) to do so. I suspect Ryan will think twice
before risking the wrath of Apple Legal, or the DOJ.
I loathe the DMCA, I think it's a horridly anti-consumer corporate/
fascist law, but it a large cudgel that can be used against people
hacking OS X to run on X86 systems, at least here in the US.
I don't feel that it's all that great a hardship to buy apple
hardware, given that the alternative is crap OS'es on cheap hardware.
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