[KLUG Advocacy] Darwin for x86

Adam Williams advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
Tue, 29 Oct 2002 09:34:19 -0500 (EST)


>>OK. So now there's really no reason to stay with Windows ;}
>I've been saying that for YEARS!!!

Me to!

>* IDE drives may not work on x86.  Try it, if it doesn't work, it's a
>known problem.* SCSI CD-ROM drives are not supported
>* Only the PIIX4 IDE controllers have been found to work.
>The list goes on.  

Ouch!

>Also, AMD cpus and chipsets are not supported.

And thats a bad thing how? :)

>It was nice of apple to release it.  Perhaps we'll start seeing third
>party releases with decent hardware support.

>From what I've read I like how they handle DSAs.  Maybe a little of that 
code could get ported over to Linux....