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Leopard Hacked Already
October 27, 2007 |
If Apple thought that they could design a system that would keep hackers out of their phones or operating systems, they were quite wrong.
According to various reports today, a number of hackers have already gotten Leopard to run on their “Hackintoshes.”
When OS X was first released for the Intel hardware, it took the community quite while before OS X was running on standard PCs. The fact that this new hack only took a few days shows how sophisticated the hackers have become and how much inside knowledge of the system they have gained since the early days.
Steven Hodson on WinExtra has a slightly different theory:
Needless to say this is damn cool if true and if it is possible one has to wonder if it was made this easy to do by design. Kinda makes you go hmmmmm……
I have to admit that there is a certain joy in running OS X on a machine that you actually have full control over (just ask the Mac fans who try to overclock their hardware how successful they have been).
Apple, of course, considers itself a hardware company and has no interest in releasing OS X on the PC (probably also because of the fact that they don’t want to support all the various hardware out there). However, if Apple just released an open version for PCs and clearly stated what hardware it would and would not run on, what would the damage be? Most people would still opt for buying a real Mac anyway.
Oh, and if you are really, really curious how this all is supposed to work (for educational purposes, of course), you might want to peek here (but only briefly!). If you are somewhat comfortable with copying and pasting commands into a command line, you will have no problem whatsoever with doing this.
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