[Tfug] Yes, I remember how I claimed Apple was at war with Hackintoshes.

[bpoag at comcast.net]

Your first point is invalid. Show me a non-geek Hackintosh builder. 

Your second point is also invalid. You can easilly build PCs with off-the-shelf parts that are fully Hackintosh-friendly. 

You seem to think there's something magical about OS X that can secretly determine under the surface whether or not a piece of hardware did or did not originate from Apple. As long as you have control over the EFI and the boot process itself, which we do, there is no OH GOED NO HAYLP MAH HADWUR DUDNT WURK NO MOR. It is no more complicated or error-prone than updating Linux is. I've been doing this for over a year now, without any significant problems. I'd even say at this point it's -easier- to maintain a hackintosh than a typical Linux distrib. Hackintoshing gives you all the benefits of Linux without the chicken-with-its-head-cut-off leadership inherent to GNOME and KDE. Besides, it just works better, and looks cleaner. The biggest lesson the while Linux experiment taught us is that at the end of the day, people don't want freedom /of/ choice. They want freedom /from/ it. What good is freedom if the result is anarchy? 

You want to borrow my hackintosh for a while, so you can see for yourself? If not, go to EBay, and find yourself a Compaq Presario C700. They're dirt cheap, dual core, wide screen laptops that happen run off-the-shelf OS X perfectly. I bought mine new at Wal-Mart of all places (eeugh) for $350, got rid of Vista, and had OS X on it by the end of the night. 

The only thing that differentiates it from an actual Mac is half a second of grey-on-black BIOS'ish text you have to look at while the EFI bootstrap loads, and the kernel kicks in. 

Cheers, 
Bowie 





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim March" <1.jim.march at gmail.com> 
To: "Tucson Free Unix Group" <tfug at tfug.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 5:22:12 AM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain Time (Arizona) 
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Yes, I remember how I claimed Apple was at war with Hackintoshes. 


On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Bowie J. Poag < bpoag at comcast.net > wrote: 



OS X relies on the Darwin kernel, which is open source. 

All this means is that you'll need to point your system to a kernel not provided by Apple -- which (surprise!) most hackintosh users are already doing anyway... 


For geek users, sure, absolutely. 

For ordinary non-geeks? This is evidence Apple is actively "hunting" Hackintosh installs and this is only the beginning. Non-geeks won't be able to keep up, which is all Apple cares about. 

I installed four Ubuntu systems for three people in the last two weeks alone. They're doing great. Could I do the same with Hackintoshes? Nope. For starters they're running systems not compatible with Hackintoshing in the first place, and second, there's no way I'm going to run all over town every time Apple does another round of attack. 

And that's why Hackintoshing is NOT the answer versus Linux. 

Jim 

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