[Duo2400] Re: We can close this list now! ;-)

[Marcelus G. Zalotti]

on 1/8/03 21:51, Ivan Drucker at ivanxqz at yahoo.com wrote:

> Any *new* hardware, including the two new PowerBooks, ain't gonna start
> into 9 no matter what. Since the 7.1 days Apple always had to either
> update the OS or include an enabler file to support new machines; It's
> why you can't run 7.5 on your 2400, or 8.6 on your iBook. The OS just
> won't boot. Apple's basically said that they're not going to make 9 work
> for any future models. Someone might try to hack 9 to get it to boot new
> hardware, but it sounds iffy at best -- who knows what kind of changes
> they've made. It would be pretty clever if someone could write the right
> enabler file to make it happen.

I wonder if the future Macs will be able to just run alternative operating
systems to Mac OS X, like Linux or BSD...



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