So the pager went off again last night and woke me up. While I was waiting to see if a very long bzip operation would resolve the issue satisfactorally, I had a bit of time on my hands….
First, I downloaded PearPC, which is a PowerPC architecture hardware emulator, OS not included.
Booting into Mac OS X would’ve been much cooler, but since I don’t own Mac OS X, I downloaded a Darwin ISO from http://developer.apple.com/darwin/. (Darwin is the open-sourced portion of Mac OS X and basically is the UNIX internals of Mac OS X without the GUI – more specifically I believe it’s a FreeBSDish UNIX on top of a Mach microkernel).
Here’s a screenshot:
Mac OS X would’ve been so much sexier. Alas, if there is a PowerBook in my future, then maybe I’ll have Tiger running on here in a few weeks.
This sounds really cool. I think I´ll test that, too. Could you describe your harware, shortly ?
Greets from germany
Pentium 4 1.6 GHz, 512 MB of RAM
Incidentally, I discovered last night that I can also run X11 inside the Darwin and it’s usable, although I could get the same effect out of running Cygwin or Knoppix or Linux. I’d love to try booting Mac OS X, but I don’t have it to try.
Greetings from California.