Ichijo's Journal: OS/X, OS4.0, and Linux, All-in-One

The new AmigaOne motherboards ship with SuSE Linux PPC, because the new Amiga OS has not yet been released.

Now SuSE on an AmigaOne motherboard in itself isn't a good reason to spend all that money. But take a look at this: [screenshot]

Yes, it's Mac OS 9 running under Linux via Mac-on-Linux. OS X should also work in this configuration. Mac-on-Linux uses the processor directly without any emulation, so it should be pretty speedy.

When Amiga OS 4.0 comes out, you'll essentially be able to run three different operating systems on the same computer.

Uh...

[Squidgee]

No offense dude, but you can do that on a normal PC (I'm on an iBook, btw).

AND, on my iBook I can run: Gentoo, SuSe, Yellow Dog, Madrake, Red Hat, Mac OS X & 9, and quite possibly AmigaOS. Plus, using my copy of VPC 6.0 I can run: All Linux distros, Symbian, QNX, Windows (All), All BSD Varients, Darwin-x86, BeOS, and all the rest.

I'd say my iBook is working fine for the purpose of OS running. =p

Re:Uh...

[Ichijo]

Mac-on-Linux doesn't run on x86 hardware [maconlinux.org], so I don't see how you could run Mac OS X on a PC. And Amiga OS 4.0 won't run on a Mac, because it "requires OS4-specific extensions...in the hardware's boot ROM as an anti-piracy measure" (see Amiga Inc's statement here [8bit.co.uk]).

I'd like to run both OS X and Amiga OS 4.0 without having to spend the money for two computers, so it looks like an AmigaOne motherboard is the way to go. (At least until Apple decides to add their own anti-piracy technology to OS X.)

Re:Uh...

[Squidgee]

Uh, dude: I'm running an iBook and I can run all those OSes...