Mac OS X running on a non-Apple PPC?

Mac on Linux? You still need to have a ppc, wintels won't run it ... And if you have a G3 or G4, why to have a Linux in it to then emulate X? (especially when mac on linux isn't freeware).
 
Originally posted by Giaguara
Mac on Linux? You still need to have a ppc, wintels won't run it ... And if you have a G3 or G4, why to have a Linux in it to then emulate X? (especially when mac on linux isn't freeware).
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Simply because other PPC hardware is generally cheaper than Apple hardware :p
 
Um...Gia...Mac on Linux is too freeware. And open sourced. I've talked to the developer some, trying to see if I can get it to run under OS X. Not to run OS X on it (would be pretty useless :D) but to be able to run classic in its own environment. I miss seeing the classic desktop and all.

Unfortunately, I'm not all that good at assembly code, and that's mostly what needs to be changed for it to work under Darwin...
 
According to many reports, it's quite slow to run Mac OS X on MOL. The machines they talk about are not available, really, and dog slow, too (600 MHz G3 so far). The part about running Mac OS X gives the story some focus, but it's nothing new really. Not like buying a plain vanilla PPC (CHRP) machine and running Mac OS X on it (which would certainly be interesting, but that's not what the story is about).
 
Yes, Mac on Linux is apparently VERY slow, and it would be simpler and cheaper, and undoubtably more worthwhile to buy a cheap used G3 if one wants to run X.

However, I'm most intrigued by the fact that it runs without an Apple BIOS. What does Mac On Linux do to allow this to happen? Is it possible that the only thing stopping us from running OS X on non-Apple machines is the OS X EULA?

Or would someone possibly just need to develop an appropriate boot loader, something like Unsupported Utility X?

Rip
 
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