[geeks] Opinions on the HP C3x00?

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 08:14:15AM +0200, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> MacOS is open source, at least the operating system part. It's called
> Darwin and is both available from Apple, and opendarwin.org, along with
> a centralized organization to port *BSD, Linux, and other open source
> software, darwinports.org.

The open sourced version of Darwin seems to be rather stale, and the
non Apple developers report that they believe it is because Apple
doesn't want people being able to use the open source version to
leverage OS X onto non Apple hardware.
 
> Except for lack of a BIOS, the current machines are close enough to run
> Windows XP with a boot loader hack. Something anyone can do. Windows/Vista
> is supposed to install out of the box, with no hack.

It is?  I thought MS issued a statement that they wouldn't be adding EFI
support the 32bit version of Vista.
 
> Our friends in Redmond do not exist in a vacuum, I'm sure there is a DRM'ed
> version of Windows Vista under development. Eventually there will be a 
> version of Windows so cheap that most people who would of bootleged it,
> won't bother ($100 or less). The high end version of Windows (supposedly
> targeted to gamers) will very likley be DRM'ed.

A lot of people would still bootleg windows at $50 I bet.  I don't know
that it effects your point at all.
 
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