Apple arch
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:42 pm
If you try to run darwin x86 from apple, it will not start booting the CD. The protection of OS X for intel processors will probably look at a serial number on the processor, especially if they use a pentium D.
Talking about porting software from linux to OS X, and vica versa.... it doesn't matter that much about the architecture, that would be just a matter of a compile flag and some small bug stomping. What matters the most is what is in between the kernel level and the software level (no matter what OS...windoze, linux, unix, OS X), if you write your software to work with ALSA and you try to run it on OS X with no alsa support, you have to rewrite a major portion of your app. Rewriting code and changing compile flags are two major time differences.
Talking about porting software from linux to OS X, and vica versa.... it doesn't matter that much about the architecture, that would be just a matter of a compile flag and some small bug stomping. What matters the most is what is in between the kernel level and the software level (no matter what OS...windoze, linux, unix, OS X), if you write your software to work with ALSA and you try to run it on OS X with no alsa support, you have to rewrite a major portion of your app. Rewriting code and changing compile flags are two major time differences.