Mac OS Xbox

Indeed, Mac OS X running on Xbox...

http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~ranma1/mac_install.html

No idea how fast this will run, but pretty cool anyways...

 

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But can you stick a bigger HDD in there, and have a useable workstation?

 

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Cool! Of course it works on any PC running Linux, but what the heck

 

Hmmm that would be a cheap alternative to buying a G4 mac if they manage to get things runing smootly.

 

Awesome!

That will look real nice on my Jap LE console... im gonna use it as my webserver!

OSX Rocks!

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Hmm... may try it on my laptop, can't hurt to try!

 

Only Smarties have the answer..... : )Blue is back, blue is back.hehe.

This looks very cool, so it basically turns your xbox into a mac, or the functions of a mac anyway.Can you use all the features of the operating system? MJac os is far superior to windows xp.

 

Will it make it crash as frequently as a mac does?

 

Damn, 10 hours? It's running slow as hell...I don't know if it's worth the time.
Just buy a Mac or install PearPC on a ordinary desktop PC.



PD

 

The Mac fans here will disagree with me I'm sure, but so far I'm with Funkstar here - for a platform touted for it's stability, I've always been very disappointed with MacOS (though I've not tried OSX yet). I had to deal with OS8/9 once or twice in work over the summer and the whole things was so bloody unreliable, getting it working on a corporate network was a nightmare. Working with some fairly new eMacs for my music tech course was even worse - slow as hell, and leave them doing anything like compiling a project and there's a 30-40% crash rate.

I might have a chance to work on a G5 at some point in the future, so I'm going withhold judgement partially until then. I wouldn't mind a go on OSX on my PC in the meantime, mind...

 

OSX is based on apple's own flavour of BSD... its damn stable... so stable that i run my family of website from my g5 in my bedroom!

Most of OSX's problems are simply down to badly coded software...
for me, its the ultimate UNIX workstation.

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im no apple fan but I will say osx is stable, but its MUCH SLOWER than it should be. We work with os7-9 at work and rarely x, we crash about 13 times a day in a 7 hour work day, thats alot of down time and could be fixed and much simpler if they moved to a windows based platform. However, the technology president of the company is a mac fan so therefore we all have to use macs. No offense to the mac fans here but the operating system just demands too much from them. a 512 meg of ram mac should be alot more stable than it is and a heck of alot faster than one that has 256 megs ram. Oh yes, and network performance is another factor I must say is something that must be fixed. Downloading files from a windows server to a mac is lightning fast. Downloading from another mac is like a turtle. Something definatly needs to be looked at in apples networking protocolls. But I will say they do work nice for media (if your running X)

 

wonder if this will work even better on the next xbox since it will run off a PowerPC processor ?

 

I would really enjoy trying this if the speed improves

 

I've worked professionally with OS8-10 and every one had been fucking unstable. Random crashes, freezing, etc. The people that say macs are stable only really use them for surfing the net and other simple tasks. You try editing a 24 track Pro Tools session in one and you'll see how bad they can be.

 

Saying that you don't like the stability of working on a Mac because OS 7/8/9 crashes a lot is like saying Windows doesn't work well when you have been puttering along with 3.1. OS X has come a long way from its humble roots, and while it is a bit slower on G3s and some of the earlier G4s, a more stable and friendly operating system, find you will not. The Linux community should open their eyes and take a hint from Apple.

This PearPC thing is awesome, I can't wait to try running both Windows XP and OS X 10.3 on my PC. ^__^

 

Hey, why not run VirtualPC on PearPC and run Windows XP on your Xbox, as a testament of the True Nature of the Beast :smt043

 

a bit slower is quite a large understatement, photoshop was timed at 3:42 load time on osx, and 0:54 on os 9.2.

Not to mention you cant turn off half the things apple thinks is pretty. I like very few effects on my machine. a static dock of only 4 items would please me, I dont need to see that the finder application is running in the dock but its unhidable, and the progress bars make me sick @_@. Scroll bars too. If you could have osx's stability with os9s interface, id like it alot better. OSX is just too freaking flashy for me.

 

http://xbox-windows.org/

If they can get WinCEe to run on Xbox, maybe they can get XPe to run??

If only there was an easy way to mod an Xbox with the 128mb RAM upgrade...

 

Dude, I did include 10. I just wanted to show that it's not just 10 that's unstable.