OSx86 - First Pass

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Most things work right out of the gate but there are still some issues:

  1. Quadro FX 3000 - only at 1280×1024x32 - even with the “Graphics Mode”
  2. AC’97 built-in audio (right channel) not functioning
  3. DVD+RW does not have write support

However, this represents quite a lot of progress since this build was never meant to run on this hardware and probably will not be certified with what I have in my rig. There is some really top notch information out there on the OSx86 “development” front:

While I’ve only played with it a day so far my first impression is that OSx86 is not ready for (or meant to be) a GA release in the same way most Linux distros are or even as available as the Darwin project, http://developer.apple.com/darwin/. I hope do dig deeper in the coming weeks (I don’t plan to do same things as Maxxus and the other blokes who’ve “reverse engineered” Apples hard work).

Saturday, December 10th, 2005