AppleTV Becomes OSX Workstation

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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Re:Don't play dumb.

[knewter]

This is why I personally would prefer that everyone laugh at the PaintCo for assuming they'd agree to the ridiculous demands and just go buy Linux. At some point, computers must become raw commodities the way lumber is a raw commodity. I worry that this 'just good enough' subservience to these companies and conglomerations will continue.

As it stands though, I would personally advocate anyone that has legally obtained the digital media to stick it wherever you please. I understand that this is 'technically' illegal, but I'm not sympathetic. I've bought many tens of copies of Windows XP over the years. I've lost the media and licenses, because they didn't matter to me. Then WGA came along and screwed me over, a legitimate, loyal repeat customer. I've been running linux pretty much exclusively on all my machines since then (back then, I had at least a COUPLE of windows machines...now, none).

The Licensing Agreements are handed down from on high. We're forced into accepting them by the places we work ("we only use MS Office! Get Windows!"). There is no discussion or debate, this is simply the way things must be if you want to take advantage of society's growing mastery of electron tunneling. All hardware is about to be dictated by agreements between these, our OS-representatives, and the media industry. Better to get better OS-representatives.