From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 30 01:42:47 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D19016A4CE for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:42:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net (adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [68.76.19.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BE4D43D41 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:42:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) Received: from [192.168.2.49] (adsl-65-42-187-207.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net [65.42.187.207]) (authenticated bits=0)ESMTP id i5U1gFC1041097; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:42:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from luke@foolishgames.com) In-Reply-To: <40E1CAAD.3000303@minimum.se> References: <40E1CAAD.3000303@minimum.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <9AB2A3A2-CA36-11D8-96CD-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Lucas Holt Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 21:41:27 -0400 To: Martin Olsson X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version 0.73, clamav-milter version 0.73a on adsl-68-76-19-75.dsl.klmzmi.ameritech.net X-Virus-Status: Clean cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and MacOS X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 01:42:47 -0000 Here's an idea.. install FreeBSD 5.2.1 and use the ports collection to get PearPC. Then you can get a license to OSX and run it. I read the hardware support list, and sound doesn't even work yet in pearpc. It might be more beneficial to buy a used Mac. I have a FreeBSD desktop and an Ibook. OSX is very nice. Apple actually had a build of OSX that ran on ia32 hardware before 10.0 came out. It was one of the first release canidates. Apple kept it updated through 10.1 supposedly internally in case they needed to switch to Amd or Intel processors. Instead they chose the G4 and G5 chips. Thats how darwin was ported to x86 hardware. (well i think there was a version of next for pc hardware toward the end...) I'm going to try pearpc since I have 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3 install CDs. :) On Jun 29, 2004, at 4:01 PM, Martin Olsson wrote: > Hi, > > * MacOS X is based on FreeBSD > * there is a x86 kernel for FreeBSD > > Does that mean I can buy a copy of MacOS X, download an x86 kernel for > freeBSD, do some (or quite alot of) hacking and then get MacOS X > running on my PC? > > I realize that such hacking would be quite substantial but maybe if I > forgot about audio and all that, just how much work would it be? Could > it be done? > > > Sincerly, > Martin Olsson > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Lucas Holt Luke@FoolishGames.com ________________________________________________________ FoolishGames.com (Jewel Fan Site) JustJournal.com (Free blogging)