[CentOS] apple to Intel

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Tue Jun 7 22:31:53 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 17:16 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 17:03, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 17:48 -0400, William Warren wrote:
> > > I am wondering what the list's opinion is on the Apple to Intel 
> > > switch.  This is going to put a slick desktop that runs on top of 
> > > BSD directly into the mainstream.  What does this hold for Linux 
> > > in general, Linux on the desktop..and microsoft.
> > 
> > Yawn. Apple in their right mind would never allow OS X to run on
> > commodity hardware. It may have an Intel chip in it, but it's still not
> > a PC.
> 
> So how long will it take for someone to add Mac emulation to Xen,
> VMware, VirtualPC, etc. so OS X won't know its running on
> commodity hardware?

Not very long I'd imagine. Look at PearPC as it is, and realize that
they won't have to do processor emulation anymore.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>
http://centos.ivazquez.net/

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