[NTLUG:Discuss] Vista vs Ubuntu 7.04

[Eli]

Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> Eli Cantu wrote:
>   
>> Right now I'm entertaining myself with multi boot of ubuntu, xp & osx,
>> on a dual core athlon. What I know for sure, Vista isn't for me.
>>   
>>     
> OSX on a dual core Athlon??   OSX?? as in Apple Mac OSX?  I knew about 
> opendarwin, but that required an INTEL processor.  What exactly are you 
> running?
>
>   
It's a hacked version of osx.  Legalities aside for a moment, there are 
several versions of osx isos  floating around on bittorrent.  The most 
popular ones have JAS in the name of it, jas being the guy who packaged 
it, but a lot of people have worked on it.  Lot's of hacking of drivers 
for hardware that Apple doesn't support, many being ported from either 
linux or bsd.  There are other versions beside "JAS" isos, but it's the 
most popular I think.

Here's the forum that's changed incarnations a couple of times, but it 
has a large following:
http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showforum=85

Here's a few of the hardware compatibility lists (they have them for 
several versions)
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.4.8/Desktops
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.4.8
http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/HCL_10.4.6

As for the legalness...it's not --but there's no evidence that Apple is 
attempting to go after people either.  And I think the reason why, is 
that it's fun to tinker/experiment with, but you can't run software 
updates, there are significant hurdles that require lots of (fun) 
commandline noodling.  Mixing of packages from previous versions to 
overcome quirks. Sata is a big challenge, sometimes it works, many times 
it doesn't.  I have had no luck with Intel cpus.  lol.  All my 
nforce3/4, Athlon rigs don't have a problem with it.  Opengl/Aqua works 
with full acceleration with the right nvidia/ati card.  This isn't a 
mainstream hack.  Only folks who really enjoy getting odd combinations 
of hardware/software to run ,will find this easy.  I spent a couple of 
weeks the first time around.

In the end, if I wanted an OS X machine for true productivity and the 
stability that comes with the name, I'd buy an apple machine.  This is 
definitely not a replacement.  But it's fun and there's a lot of apps to 
try/experiment with.

btw, I've been using macs since 1986.  I've got two "switchers" this 
year already.

Anyway, I ramble.  Goodnight.

e