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New Amiga Hardware Runs Mac OS
Ethan writes: "A developer on the Yahoo Amiga One mailing list has successfully installed MacOS 9.2 using Mac On Linux. And it seems that adding OS X support is on the to-do horizon for the MOL developers.
I think that it will be interesting to see the people at Apple lose some sleep now that a low cost, fast, off the shelf solution exists to run Mac OS, without any Apple hardware.
If it doesn't do anything else, at least it will give the people buying the new Amiga One G3 PPC board an existing software base." Mind you, I've never even seen an Amiga One, but it would be a pretty silly thing to make up ;) Update: 07/05 07:03 GMT by T : Mike Bouma piped up with a link to a page featuring the same hardware, in this case running Debian, OpenOffice.org and Mozilla.
Don't get me wrong, this is kinda kewl and all, and assuming this isn't a fake (dunno why it would be) ... Why would anyone want to buy an AmigaOne just to run MacOS???
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Now, I realize that it is just another OS that will run on the hardware, but Apple has a much larger selection of hardware and then again, there is obviously going to be no support from either Amiga, Inc. or Apple. Both are proprietary hardware (how ever similar they may be) and will require support for things like new firmware, hardware, etc.
I'm sure you can expect both companies to attempt to make this next to impossible (Amiga, Inc. wants to sell their OS as much as Apple wants to sell their hardware)
So, does it really matter that this works for now? This is likely to become something like the PS2 Linux Distro...nice, but not very widely used...