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   #14. Posted at 06:41 PM on Oct 6th 2004 Edit   Reply
indeego
OSX good.
Macs bad.
XBOX Huge.
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#14, LOL  :  eitje  (#22)  «

   #2. Posted at 11:28 AM on Oct 6th 2004 Edit   Reply
ripfire
Ugh! I keep asking this over and over so many times: Whhyyyy?? and WTF for???
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#2, Because OS-X and Aqua are such a goddamn nice OS?? Anything ...  :  JavaDog  (#4)  «
#4, Because these folks have too much time on their hands... I...  :  ripfire  (#5)  «
#5, On the Xbox? Useless, but this is still a cool hack. ;...  :  JavaDog  (#6)  «
#6, Dude, 30 min to boot ??? My OS x 10.3 on pear pc bo...  :  adisor19  (#8)  «
#5, Hahaha easy there with the Mac bashing.. OS X is more t...  :  adisor19  (#9)  «
#9, http://www.outofspec.com/frankenmac Build an apple f...  :  Kurlon  (#21)  «
#5, I guess that time would be better spent staring at a w...  :  CasbahBoy  (#12)  «
#2, I agree buying an Xbox to run Linux or OSX is pretty lame. B...  :  Captain AMD  (#17)  «

   #19. Posted at 08:37 PM on Oct 6th 2004 Edit   Reply
albundy
Hmmmm...should work on an PC with Linux, no? This looks like eMuLaTiOn NaTiOn to me. Sort of like VMware, but free? What does Xbox use for their hardware anywayz? Its all PC parts, no?
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#19, http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/ Runs on linux (bsd?) and win32...  :  protomech  (#20)  «

   #18. Posted at 08:22 PM on Oct 6th 2004 Edit   Reply
Supreme Dalek
I noticed the word "eventually" featured a bit. I suspect this would not be one of the most...fluid installs of OS X.
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   #16. Posted at 07:26 PM on Oct 6th 2004 Edit   Reply
UberGerbil
There's a much easier way to get the same result: print out that last screen shot. Stick it on your TV set. Performance and UI responsiveness should be about comparable.
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   #7. Posted at 03:42 PM on Oct 6th 2004 Edit   Reply
eitje
i find this very entertaining, as my roommate told me the new Xbox is supposed to be based on the G5.
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#7, What the hell? Where did he hear that?  :  emkubed  (#10)  «
#10, some gaming magazine... gameinformer? maybe i misunderstoo...  :  eitje  (#11)  «
#11, actually, i remember hearing that too  :  Usacomp2k3  (#13)  «
#10, It appears that the CPU for XBox is going to be sourced b...  :  UberGerbil  (#15)  «

   #3. Posted at 11:38 AM on Oct 6th 2004 Edit   Reply
UberGerbil
Keep in mind they are emulating the PowerPC CPU on a slow (733Mhz) PIII-class processor. They can be compiling Darwin to native, but since they don't have the source to OSX (Apple has released some of it back to Open Source but AFAIK not all of it) the UI is running in emulation. Any guesses as to how responsive it would be on that hardware?

And now what?

I guess it's an interesting exercise in getting something that looks like a Mac for <$200, but beyond that..
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   #1. Posted at 11:07 AM on Oct 6th 2004 Edit   Reply
MagerValp
Looks like they're running the full MacOS X, not just the darwin core.
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