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Re: Mac clone and OS X 10.5 Server

That information is dated. Psystar, while shady and their other "product" offerings questionable (or non-existent), and while they have changed their operating address some four times (at least), they are actually shipping out their so-called "Open Computers" to customers. Several have reached the hands of reviewers in the mainstream IT press, and others have posted videos of them being unboxed and operating to YouTube. So, while it's probably a fairly small and fly-by-night operation, they are indeed real and shipping cheap PC clones that can run Leopard (with additional kernel extensions and in a state that CANNOT be updated via Software Update) via the mechanisms developed by the the osx86 project.

Of course, Psystar isn't doing anything special: various PC hardware has been able to run Intel versions of OS X in various forms for quite some time now. The novel thing here is that a company is actually selling a product based around the direct violation of a software license agreement.

- Dave

On May 7, 2008, at 8:52 AM, Eric Schroder wrote:

Some info about Psystar:

http://gizmodo.com/380488/psystar-exposed-looks-like-a-hoax

Eric


On 07/05/2008 14:47, "Jason Pruim" <email@hidden> wrote:


On May 7, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Dave Schroeder wrote:


On May 7, 2008, at 8:26 AM, webmaster wrote:


On May 07, 2008, at 09:10 AM, Angus Fox wrote:


On 7 May 2008, at 13:59, webmaster wrote:


The Psystar "clone" can run Leopard. It can, therefore, also run
Leopard Server. (You could even upgrade the Leopard installation to
Leopard Server, if it came down to it.) Both are equally and
ridiculously unsupported by Apple, or even Psystar in any meaningful
sense. If that's the way you want to run Mac OS X Server and
nothing's going to stop you, go for it.



I just wanted to get clarification on 1 small thing, isn't a leopard
desktop and a leopard server system pretty much the same exact thing?
It's just the leopard server has the admin tools to run the various
software pieces from 1 easy to use, Mac like interface?

I haven't looked into it too deeply, but on my iMac running Leopard, I
have Postfix, PHP & Apache... A few other pieces and I have all the
server software installed on my desktop computer :) Just no easy to
use interface...

Or am I totally off base?

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Raoset Inc.
Technology Manager
MQC Specialist
3251 132nd ave
Holland, MI, 49424-9337
www.raoset.com
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