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AppleTV Becomes OSX Workstation

Posted by Hemos on from the reconstruction dept.

An anonymous reader writes "AppleTVhacks published a full howto install guide with 12 easy steps to turn your AppleTV into a full blown OSX workstation. With a processor emulation, hacker Semthex of hackint0sh.org, managed to get full blown OSX working on a AppleTV. The kernel for this hack is freely available under APSL and opens the legal way to a really cheap Mac Nano. With 300$ difference to the Mac Mini, this is becoming a fairly interesting deal." April Fool's, btw.

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  1. Clearly they saw /. coming by jimicus · · Score: 1, Redundant

    The first link is no longer there, it's a 404.

    Anyone get a mirror up?

  2. April Fools by DiamondGeezer · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It was posted on April 1st. On April 2nd it was slashdotted.

    The webpage doesn't exist and the home page is an Apache webserver running on CentOS (linux). What are the chances?

    --
    Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
    1. Re:April Fools by tsalaroth · · Score: 0, Redundant

      The site itself wasn't an april fools joke, it actually existed and had several articles. I'm guessing the slashdotting led to a server crash, and perhaps they pointed the DNS to a new host prematurely (ie, haven't set up the Apache server)?

  3. Re:Why bother? The Answer by kanweg · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Because it is fun.

    Bert