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Intel Mac OS X Catches Up With Older Brother
RetrogradeMotion writes "Apple is now one step closer to the Intel transition. According to the OSx86 Project, a recently leaked installation DVD of Mac OS X 10.4.3 reveals that the Intel version is in sync with the PowerPC version - the two are now identical. Initially, "OSx86" was substantially behind its PPC counterpart, but the recent update makes it ready for the public. The article also notes that Apple has continued to learn from hackers' efforts to crack the operating system and has greatly strengthened the TPM protections."
I want an OS that I can multi-boot MS-Windows and Linux on that runs on commodity hardware. If I want to put it on a $300 box or a $3000 box shouldn't matter to Apple. I'd rather pay $1000 for hardware - Apple's or another vendor's functional equivalent - and $500 for the OS and bundled software than $1500 for a functionally-equivalent Mac with the software built into the price.
Otherwise, "Mac OSX on TPM'd Intel" is just another way of saying "Mac OSX on a proprieTary PlatforM." Not interested.
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``The article also notes that Apple has continued to learn from hackers' efforts to crack the operating system and has greatly strengthened the TPM protections.''
Good! The harder they work on keeping people from using it, the less effort they can put in making it good, and the fewer developers will come to the platform.
To me, this says that Linux is going to improve compared to OS X, both because Apple is investing effort in making their OS worse instead of better, and because they will fail to attract as many hackers as they could.
I already switched from OS X to Linux because I find it technically superior, so with this development coming up I can see Linux kill another Unix. Although, I have to say, Apple developers work miracles on OS X, so I can also see OS X not getting killed by Linux.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
You'd think that apple would wake up and get the message people are sending about the desire for platform obscurity. Think about it
-> Action: Apple announces move to Intel
-> Reaction: A lot of excitement about running os x on commodity hardware
-> Action: Apple starts leaking information about TPM
-> Reaction: A lot of interest in how to break it and run it on commodity hardware
In general companies tend to do better when they give consumers what they want. If Apple wants to make money on the hardware, it should be simple
Nope this is not 1978, and it is no longer an 8 bit 16 color world.
Still most forms of copy protection have been cracked, despite the fact that it is no longer 1978, and cracking them was not as easy as "fiddle with this" but was more like Polish Math Experts trying to crack the World War II German Enigma codes and instead of 8 wheels, they used 128 wheels. Difficult, but not quite impossible.
The only way to stop this sort of thing is to arrest people who write the programs to crack the security. Like when that Russian programmer was arrested when he visited the USA for a computer conference. He found a way to remove DRM from PDF files so the programs written for blind people can read them. Nobody who made the DRM protection for PDF files help the Blind Readers read the DRM protected PDF files, and it was discrimination against the Blind.
I urge everyone to boycott Apple and OSx86 because of the draconian copy protection and spyware features that it has. Instead use Linux, and support your F/OSS developers so they can add OSx86 type features to Linux. Boycott Microsoft as well, because they are going to do the same thing with Windows Vista. Tell corporations to quit screwing the consumers, and adding these stupid features that we don't want and don't need in the OS.
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