[Tfug] Hackintosh

[erich]

I know,
        Sadly, this list serve has become a forum to promulgate 
opinions. Asking for help
has taken a back seat, and the response, (for help),has become much 
diminished from former
years.  (Yeah, I know. another opinion? Somebody jump on it.)

                                                                                                                                            
Erich
Jim Secan wrote:
> Bowie J. Poag wrote:
>   
>> I recall it required setting the hardware profile to Windows 2000, but,
>> no, everything worked just fine. That's actually how I first got into
>> futzing around with OS X, was with a VMWare image about a year ago. Was
>> nice to run it under the hood in Linux, and connect to it remotely.
>>
>>     
> </rantectomy>
> OK, so I still lurk from Seattle.  This was too good to let go by.
>
> I pretty much agree, although I won't go so far as to blow Linux off
> completely, just the desktop yearnings thereof.  While OS X is my desktop
> choice, and definitely has the horsepower to run most of my
> number-crunching codes, Linux is still going to be my OS-of-choice for
> number-crunching and for talking to and running instruments in the field. 
> I can configure Linux to run with very little overhead (no windows) to
> squeeze out every last CPU cycle for what I really want them spent on, and
> it can be downsized to fit on simple hardware when you just need something
> that speaks to other hardware.
>
> The one thing that might get me to move my number-crunching to OS X is the
> new stuff in Snow Leopard that is moving towards serious behind-the-scenes
> handling of load-leveling/sharing among all the various xPUs in your
> computer.  That is looking quite interesting.
>
> And, you might want to be clearer in distinction between X (as in ex)
> Windows and OS X (as in ten).  I had to read one of your rant-paragraphs
> twice to figure out what you thought was dead.
>
> Jim
>
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