Thinkpads Forum

I have browsed through most of the threads and do not get the impression that running a Thinkpad under OS-X is either easy or has been totally succesful.

I do have a need for eventually having to move to a MAC (not yet) and running a legacy Windows system under VMware Fusion.

Between now and then I prefer to re-familarize myself with the the Mac operating system - many, many years ago (1993 - 94) I worked with a Mac.

Having a spare machine to experiment with (it is my backup machine, the new T61P is my production machine) has me looking at ways to utilise it.

Has anyone considered / an opinion / experimented with running MAC4Lin under Ubuntu on a Thinkpad (Ubuntu live CD ran fine on the Z61M last time I tried it) and how does this compare to the real OS-X?

Many thanks in advance,
Marinus

The Mac from many many years ago is entirely different from Mac OS X. The old Mac OS was a monolithic operating system like Windows, Mac OS X is a graphical shell sittting on top of a Unix kernel. It's like the difference between Windows and Linux.

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Is anyone using mac4lin [ http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin/ ] ? And how does it compare to the real Mac OS-X?

Maccess wrote:The Mac from many many years ago is entirely different from Mac OS X. The old Mac OS was a monolithic operating system like Windows, Mac OS X is a graphical shell sittting on top of a Unix kernel.

No, Mac OS X sits on top of a *BSD-System.
BSD is NOT Linux!

propellen wrote:*bump*

Is anyone using mac4lin [ http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin/ ] ? And how does it compare to the real Mac OS-X?

MAC4LIN is just a gnome theme.....

moronoxyd wrote: No, Mac OS X sits on top of a *BSD-System.
BSD is NOT Linux!

Er.... kinda.

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Mac OS X is based on Darwin, which uses XNU for its kernel. XNU is itself a hybrid of Mach, bits of 4.3BSD, plus IOKit and some other stuff.

Saying that Mac OS X "sits on top" of BSD doesn't do really justice to the vast and substantial differences between Mac OS X and modern BSDs.

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