Zakalwe bracht ons een linkje richting www.osxonintel.com, waar men een petitie is gestart die Apple ertoe moet bewegen om een x86 versie van MacOS X uit te brengen. Zoals je wellicht weet is Darwin, de basis van MacOS X, ook beschikbaar voor het Intel platform. Alle bovenliggende zaken zoals Aqua, Quartz en andere interface meuk worden uitsluitend voor de PowerPC ontwikkeld. De kans dat Apple daadwerkelijk een volledig MacOS X pakket voor Intel hardware uit gaat brengen lijkt me zo goed als nihil, maar het ondertekenen van de petitie kan natuurlijk nooit kwaad doen...
The purpose of this web site is to let Apple know that OS X on Intel is a path worth pursuing. Most either cannot or will not buy the Apple hardware necessary to run this operating system. Some would like to use OS X on additional computers, not just Macintosh machines. We know that this OS will run on Intel platforms, there are even early beta copies of Mac OS X for Intel. Although this operating system is Apple's property to do with as they wish, the Intel platform has dominated the PC industry. Ignoring this platform will be a mistake on Apple's part. With the rising popularity of alternative operating systems for Intel such as linux, the time may be ripe for Apple to introduce it's first Intel operating system.
Rhapsody on Intel Advocacy is a group that has been around for awhile (thus the name) and can be found here : http://www.of.org/rhaptel/. Their site includes a good description of what you can do to convince Apple to produce OS X for the Intel platform. Apparently the email address listed there no longer works, but there's still some good information.
By signing this petition you are indicating that, for whatever reason, you want to see Mac OS X running on the Intel platform. Darwin is the base of Mac OS X, and Apple has released this to the open source community. Darwin is not the issue here... although it is the "heart" of the Mac OS X operating system, it's not the whole package. We want the whole package.