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Build a Macintosh From Scratch
An anonymous reader writes "MacOpz has posted a great step-by-step tutorial on building your own G4-based Macintosh from scratch. This article includes where to get parts, what modifications must be performed, and tons of photographs. A must-read for anyone that wants a Mac but doesn't want to pay Apple prices."
No way ! These days, vegetables are like software: the mainstream ones are proprietary, owned by big firms (Monsanto, etc.) and you don't have the right nor the possibility to grow them. Yes, they are patented, copyrighted etc. Yes, there are anti-piracy measures inside to prevent them to be "pirated" (i.e. naturally reproduced).
I want to build an Ultra SPARC-based machine, using genuine Sun parts, so I E-Mailed Sun, and asked them where I could buy the Ultra SPARC motherboard advertised on their U.S.A.-based site, as I am in the U.K.
I was given a phone number for a company who sold them, and I've phoned them loads of times, and not got any info back at all, except that on one occasion I was told that they would try to find out about the availability of the motherboard for me.
It is very frustrating that I can't buy the motherboard! It's about 400 quid, so you would think that they would be happy to sell it to me, but obviously not.
What other decent architectures are there? Alpha? Nope - it's being discontinued.
StrongARM is what I would *really* like to build a machine based on, but I can't find much info about suitable motherboards, (I want to run Linux on it).
Does anybody know of a decent ATX, StrongARM based motherboard, which is supported by Linux?
Also, Transmeta CPUs - where can I buy one? I WANT TO BUY ONE!!! Information about them is very scarce. I didn't even know that they were actually X86 compatible until a few months ago, I thought that they were a completely new architechture!
Nice.
Though, apples grow on cross-pollinating tress. So you gotta plant some seeds and then plant some more seeds just a bit away. So that the trees can pollinate each other when they grow. (One more little step)
These days, vegetables are like software
Does that make Johnny Appleseed the first free software advocate?
--Jim
And the lawyers will surely tell you that Apple has been successfully suing clone vendors since the Apple II days. It isn't an Apple unless it runs Apple's boot code. If you market anything that uses that code or anything derived from it, they will sue you and win.
-- Slashdot: When Public Access TV Says "No"
How is this offtopic?