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Getting 10.8 on PowerMac G5

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Will NOT, repeat NOT run on anything PowerPC. I don't care how much you know or how much you can reverse engineer code, it will NOT work.. This thread has gone out of control.

PowerPC Macs will only run up to 10.5.8 and thats all under Mac.. Anything else would then be Linux or BSD, such as FreeBSD.
 
The closest you can get to running 10.8 on PowerPC is to install Snow Leopard Server as a virtual machine in Parallels so you can run Rosetta in 10.8 on your Intel Mac.
 
PowerPCMacMan said:
[...]PowerPC Macs will only run up to 10.5.8 and thats all under Mac.. Anything else would then be Linux or BSD, such as FreeBSD.
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Does the public fork of Mac OS X (Darwin) still contains the PowerPC code ? If yes, well, it's the core of OS X and could run on a PowerPC Mac... Just without Carbon, Cocoa, Aqua style and all real features :p
 
CptSky said:
Does the public fork of Mac OS X (Darwin) still contains the PowerPC code ? If yes, well, it's the core of OS X and could run on a PowerPC Mac... Just without Carbon, Cocoa, Aqua style and all real features :p
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Actually Darwin came before Mac OS X and Mac OS X is based on Darwin so it isn't really a fork, if anything Mac OS X is a fork of Darwin.

Darwin dropped PowerPC support along with Mac OS X too although I'm not sure about OpenDarwin etc. but they probably did too.
 
ihuman:D said:
Actually Darwin came before Mac OS X and Mac OS X is based on Darwin so it isn't really a fork, if anything Mac OS X is a fork of Darwin.

Darwin dropped PowerPC support along with Mac OS X too although I'm not sure about OpenDarwin etc. but they probably did too.
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Well, Rhapsody was developed since 97 and was released in 99 as Mac OS X Server 1.0. Darwin (which is the core of Mac OS X) was released in 2000. Darwin could be a fork with all Mac OS X code stripped or it could be the real Mac OS X core released after its fork. Depends of the interpretation :p

Anyway. It has been said that Apple was building Mac OS X for PowerPC and Intel in the PPC time and it's a reason why the Intel-transition has been so easy for Apple. As the Darwin release is only the source-code, it might still contains the PowerPC code and could be built for PPC... Like I doubt Apple stripped all the PPC code from the Mac OS X source, but only stopped releasing Universal version of Mac OS X...

OpenDarwin clearly still has PowerPC as the development is dead before the Intel-transition. PureDarwin was targeting Darwin 9 / 10 (Leopard/Snow Leopard) and was released for a VMware Fusion virtual machine... So, Intel only.

It was only a suggestion, and a possibility that Darwin could maybe still be built for PowerPC.
 
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