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Posted on 03/24/2006 4:53:26 PM PST by Vermonter
Hackers boot a Dell with Mac OS X (Intel). March 24, 2006 -- Unidentified programmers have hacked the Intel version of Mac OS X to enable it to boot a Dell PC. A file called the "JaS4.2b patch" can be used to create a customized installer DVD for installing on a Dell PC.
A website called MacaDell describes the patch. The MacDell site has also has a page that describes how to use the JaS4.2b patch to create a customized installer disc for Mac OS X.
Using the hack is illegal because it breaks Apple’s Mac OS X license agreement, which specifies that the operating system be run on an “Apple-labeled computer.”
According to MacaDell, work on the hack began when a Russian hacker known as Maxxuss cracked the encrypted security layer in Mac OS X that usually requires the software to be installed on a certain Mac model. Other hackers added to the work, and a programmer known as JaS put the work together in the JaS4.2b patch.
The hack emulates the EFI boot firmware found in Intel-based Macs. It also emulates an instruction set called SSE3 in order to support processors older than the Dual Core used in the Intel Macs. MacaDell reports that the hack doesn’t work on every computer, and doesn’t support some functions, such as wireless networking and certain audio and video cards.
At this point, the Intel version of Mac OS X is only available with the purchase of an Intel-based Mac.
very cool! I want
I simply replace explorer.exe with litestep.exe and viola!
I'll take my chances with Linux. That's basically the world's operating system vs the best one company can do, easy choice.
I guess they are not interested in making money.
I think you're right.
Goodness knows, if I could run OSX on my current hardware, I'd be placing the order now.
A lot of people would! MS would lose marketshare to Apple and OS X.
They use the same components.. Both Dell and Apple recently suffered the same fate... bad capacitors...
Can you imagine the OEM race to write proper drivers?
It would be a smashing bestseller, even if Ballmer tried to throw a chair at everyone who bought it . . .
SSE3 emulator... lol
5x0, 5x5, 5x9, 5x0j, 5x5j, 5x9j, 5x1, 5x6, 6x0, 6x1, 6x2 etc all have SSE3, the emulator is for Willamette, Northwood, and early versions of the Intel P4 Xeon and Xeon MP CPUs (often refered to as Foster, Prestonia, and Gallatin)
The newer AMD processors have SSE3... since Dell owns Alienware now, the OS will work on those too.
Nothing special about "Core Duo" or whatever marketing crap they use to trick the unwashed masses with...
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
The drivers would be the hard thing, would need to get hardware manufactures to make drivers for their products and have Apple test them, like MS does.
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MUCH more interesting than booting Windows XP on an Intel Mac!!!!!!!!!!
Caring about the OS is so 1990's.
The world does its business on-line now...in browsers. It's the browser that matters, not the OS.
Just more proof that the world is ready for an entirely new OS.
Working on it. Coming up (and with less crapola than windows "Vista"...)
Somwhere in Cupertino, an Apple employee is being chewed out.
Linux or FreeBSD, either way it's a dialect of Unix. And Unix really is the world's operating system.
When you run Linux, you'll be running KDE or Gnome to have a GUI.
When you run FreeBSD on Apple hardware, it comes with a really nifty GUI, called OS X (and cool aps, too).
(I've got a guild loyalty to FreeBSD, since it was written by another category theorist--my branch of mathematics, though I'm happy with Linux, too, since Torvald started with Minux--also written by a categorist. My household is standardized on Macs and my office desktop runs Linux.)
And, no, I don't buy Apple hardware out of any loyalty to Apple hardware, I buy Apple hardware because as of now, that's what Mac OS X runs on.
Absolutely not. They've even tried to shut down (without much success) sites that have posted correct instructions on how to get OS X working on non-Apple hardware. (They didn't seem to care that much before anyone got it working, heh heh.)
Steve Jobs appears to remain very much convinced that when it comes to computers, the real money is in the hardware, not the OS. OS X DVDs don't even come with any sort of copy protection on them. You can dupe them all you want. (Well, not legally, but there's certainly nothing put in place to even attempt to stop you from doing it, and Apple's never shown any real interest in preventing such copying.)
I think it's time. At this point, the 17" goosenecks are showing their age; I know mine is. Personally, I'd go for the 20" Intel iMac instead of the closeout 20" PPC; it's a close call at the moment, when not too many programs are Intel-native, but within a few months, most of them will be, and it'll probably be worth the couple of hundred extra bucks for the latest-and-greatest speed.
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