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Apple’s Leopard already hacked for PC!

i love it.. as a windows user/pc user, i love how the other side claims that its product/os is nearly unhackable but yet only less than a day after being released; Leopard has been hacked and patched to work on an Intel/AMD based pc hardware. 

Daily Apps has the full guide to making your own patched dvd and installing over here:

http://dailyapps.net/2007/10/hack-attack-install-leopard-on-your-pc-in-3-easy-steps/

i plan to try the patch myself on my Tiger partition.  hopefully my network cards (one of the two hopefully) will be recognized and then i can try using Leopard as a main os for a week or two and give a write up on it.

just thought i’d let the uninformed informed! Go OSX86 Hackers and pc geeks!

Posted by seamonkey420 on Sunday, October 28th, 2007 at 11:05 am.

5 Responses to “Apple’s Leopard already hacked for PC!”

You beat me to the punch! :)

I’m looking forward to trying this out myself (hopefully I won’t run into any hardware issues).

Left by shamanstears on October 28th, 2007

Not meaning to burst any bubbles, but I imagine they’ve been playing with the betas for the better part of a year and waiting for the official release. I’ve never played with OS X on non-Apple hardware, so I’m curious.. how do the drivers work? I’ve always thought that was an inherent weakness of Windows that there are tens or hundreds of thousands of hardware devices to support compared to the Sun/Apple models in which there is tighter reign over the available hardware. I loved installing Solaris on Sun hardware because I never needed to install a driver for anything unless the customer needed a particular fc-al hba for their weird SAN.

Left by qmchenry on October 28th, 2007

@shamantears

let me know how your install goes.. i plan to try mine out tonight.

@Q

yea, i’d assume they prob were working on this for sometime.. but its always fun for them to go public w/the hack a day after Leopard was released to retail.. hehe..

hmm.. as for HCL on OSX on PCs; the best bet is to try to build a system around hardware thats known to work (osx86.org has a great list). i know i have a proper NIC but still can’t get it to be recognized in OS X Tiger.

the drivers just kind of work; unless you need other ones or are feeling ‘adventurous’ i usually just use the native OSX drivers.

hopefully more hardware support for Leopard from the OSX86 hackers. :)

Left by seamonkey420 on October 29th, 2007

I believe OSX is still fundamentally a branch of the BSDs, so I expect the drivers for the myriad of (non-apple) hardware out there are (trivially?) ported from the FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD brigade.

Someone will no doubt correct me if i’ve got this wrong.

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