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CherryOS is dead! Long live PearPC!

Posted by timothy on from the now-it's-officious dept.

trygvebw writes "Earlier today, an entry was posted on Arben Kryzeiu's blog, stating that he was stopping development of CherryOS. CherryOS was an application sold by MXS, inc, which was clearly an illegal rip-off of the open-source PowerPC emulator PearPC. CherryOS is dead, long live PearPC!"

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  1. Text of Arben's blog. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The last bite on CherryOS

    I decided that C-OS is not worth the hassle, not now or in the future. C-OS went to work without brushing its teeth or taking a shower, it was not ready.

    Other current open source projects are progressing to the desired product; Qemu will soon support OS X and lead the way. Or maybe I am wrong and someone else will make a fast lead.

    I love my Mac and would never switch back, sure I use my PC for work but that is just a bad habit that I am trying to get rid of. A friend of mine asked me why I am still creating software for Windows and that question is not getting out of my head. Oh yeah, I know - everyone out there who has their certain opinion about me will have their great comment hour right now. Its ok I expect that anyway.

    Now what?

    Don't know and won't know for a while.

    I will go kite boarding or go fishing, get some air before I go back to my beloved square box. Tiger is great, amazing features and I love the hidden details. Don't know how Longhorn is going to compete with this OS now, would love to know what BG has planned for the future of Windows other than the marketing details.

    What will change everything is WIFIMAX, wow it will be the first step into a security nightmare and communication dreamland.

    1. Re:Text of Arben's blog. by shaitand · · Score: 1, Informative

      In order for theft to occur he would have to take something away. He didn't steal anything. He COPIED code from one open sourced GPL project and put it into his closed project. The PearPC project still has all of their code.

    2. Re:Text of Arben's blog. by nacturation · · Score: 2, Informative

      Look it up in Black's Law Dictionary sometime. Theft is generally defined as taking someone else's property with the intent to deprive the owner of its use. No deprivation? Then it's not theft.

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  2. Re:Shame by rogabean · · Score: 4, Informative

    On what do you base that PearPC is dead?
    PearPC happens to be very much alive and alot of work is still actively being done on it...
    see: PearPC.net

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  3. Re:Shame by rogabean · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try a release from my site:

    PearPC Downloads

    I happen to use PearPC on a daily basis and would say that it has achieved somewhere around 10x slower then the host. It is getting faster. True the "official releases" haven't been updated in a while, but I promise you ALOT of work is still going on.

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    "why don't you just slip into something more comfortable...like a coma!"
  4. Re:Shame by rogabean · · Score: 2, Informative

    PearPC Downloads (oops hit plain old text on last comment out of habit messing up the link)

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  5. Re:uhh.... by dn15 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Huh? CherryOS / PearPC let you run Mac OS X on a PC. WINE lets you run Windows apps in Linux. One emulates, the other does not. They are two totally different things.