This maybe way offbase for this forum but this is something I'd like to know.
Has anyone heard anything on OS X for the X 86. I've heard cases of the kernel, Darwin, being run on an intel processor. Does Apple have any plans to come out with a version for PCs, cuz if they did that would rock! I really dig OS X, but would never buy a mac (I hate Motorola after working tech support for earthlink and dealing with their modems), because I like to choose my own computer parts, and buy them one at a time over time to break up the costs. I have to say I'm really getting disenchanted with Linux, people say it's stable but I find it crashes more than win98, and 90% of the time Installing a new program fails. I admit most of those programs have work arounds, but they require way too much of archaic text editing. Mac OS X is what Linux should have been, it works and is easy to use. If Apple brought out OS X for the PC they could steal back what Microsoft stole from them. I don't think I know anyone who'd buy or use WinXP if their life depended on it, Apple could provide a wonderful alternative to windows, I'd even be willing to pay for it. If anybody's heard anything about an OS X port to the X 86 I'd appreciate some feedback.

Trust me Linux is more Stable then windows, if it is set up right.

As for OS X, I haven't heard anything at all. Sorry.

Well maybe it's more stable than 98/ME, but not 2k. I've been using it for about 8 months and it rocks. I've only had a few crashes and that was when I was overclocking my video card a bit too far, or installing easy cd creator (which as it turns out breaks win2k). With linux it seems like something consistently breaks, often hosing my windows partition or making it unbootable, which means i have to start from scratch again. From what my Mac geek friend tells me, and has shown me, OS X is even easier than windows, and as stable as win2k. Also since OS X is based off of BSD you can bring up a Unix command line, hell you can even run Xfree86 and KDE on it. Despite the massive changes it's fully backwards compatible with OS 9, and can run OS 9 inside of OS X. And most Mac installations are just "drag n drop," all you do is just directly copy the files over to your hard drive, and your good to go. No RPMs that don't work, no compiling, it just works.

geez..
ive been shopping around for a new computer and felt that putting one together would be great, so that i could put parts together that work well under linux or unix...
ive been using red hat and freebsd for a month now and its time to upgrade the ole box with new chips..so off on the internet i go to see whats new.
i like the apple G4, and i really like that yellow dog linux is available..but for how long it will be alive and kicking is debatable, so i thought about the P4..butt then apple whips out the open source mac os x and i get all excited about apple, ...

but now Sun has the ultra sparq III made by TI...

now its been three months and i cant decide which to buy! lol

any thoughts everyone?

I have just read an article about Mac OS X.

Apparently we are both right, because the new version (9.1) is based on a version of Unix!

I always thought that Apple should start porting their software over the x86 market. I would buy a copy if one was available, but I think I may stick with Linux first and foremost.

I have used OS X, and have to say it is really fast and quite stable. It would do Apple good to port it over, but then what about hardware supprot? they would need to create a PC emulation layer for all that different type of hardware it would be hard to maintain.

Too bad.

Yes, Darwin is ported to x86.
Go here to download http://www.publicsource.apple.com/pr...3/release.html