Mac OS X 10.6.2 hacked to allow Atom support
By Donald Melanson 
posted November 19th 2009 8:21PM
posted November 19th 2009 8:21PM
posted November 19th 2009 8:21PM
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@derrik
-__-' you missed the point/sarcasm, sir.................
@trevor Nah, I think his reply was on point.
I just finished tweaking Leopard on my netbook, and now they say Snow Leopard is available to install? I gotta hack faster.
@adelossa late to the party much?
Hahaha, when will they learn! Their attempts to limit what users want results in users beating their protectionist measures quickly and for free. Fools!
@Flowah
And tons of free press for Apple.
Who is the fool?
@Flowah until the law says Apple has to allow it, they wont. and they actually have the law on their sides. the DMCA forbids this kind of activity. if the hackintosh community pisses them off well enough, Apple may start tracking down the major players and taking them to court.
@Flowah This is NOT a protectionist measure on the part of Apple! Apple doesn't offer products with Atom CPUs, so why should they bother including files that support it?! This has NOTHING to do with Apple protecting OS X, they could lock it down if they wanted to. This is actually proof that OS X is open sourced and OPEN to new kernels! Apple GAVE them the source for the kernel!!!
This is a testament to how monumental the desire to use OS X over Windows is becoming. Once hackintoshers become fairly familiar with the OS it will make it far easier to transition into purchasing Macs. So, much like the iPod and iPhone, this is is yet another halo effect that is driving consumers toward Macs.
Whatever puts you to be at night...
@MastaQ that would be my hot hot girlfriend.
@[Highest Ranked] Only the ones that could afford Macs in the first place. A lot of the appeal of a Hackintosh is that it costs far less than the real thing.
After the better part of five years using a PowerBook G4, I bought a desktop Hackintosh off a guy on Kijiji for $350. It has a 1.6 GHz Core 2 Duo, 2.5 GB of DDR2 RAM, a 100 GB hard drive (which I've supplemented with my spare 80GB drive for XP and Ubuntu), 8 USB ports + 2 FW400, included a passable 19" LCD, and I was able to add a nice cheap GeForce 9500 GT after the fact with the help of a new power supply and some EFI wrangling.
OS X doesn't run as tightly here as it would on an equivalent Mac (which would cost me several times more): USB devices are sometimes reluctant to be recognized, and it can't resume from sleep (which just means I power off when I'm done), but there are no show-stopping problems, and for the price, it gives me a pretty awesome "Mac" which I now use as my main machine for work and play.
Don't get me wrong, I'd still buy the real thing, for the sake of saved trouble and better support...IF I had that kind of money. I don't, nor do many others who might otherwise consider a Hackintosh merely a stepping stone on the way to a Mac. The halo effect doesn't quite cover this one, I think.
@Shunnabunich that's quite fine, I'm glad you enjoy OS X. You bring up good points and I'll just add that what you said does not negate the desire to up-step to an Macintosh if the means to you were available. OS X is quite fantastic.
@[Highest Ranked] No argument there (and I have been drooling, however futilely, over that 27" iMac). All I was saying is that in this economy, people are generally less likely to have such means, which makes the "good enough" mindset more prevalent. Rather than imagining how much better OS X might be if they had a Mac, they might just be glad it works well enough for day-to-day use and leave it at that. There will certainly be people who know they can safely take the plunge, just not as many.
@Shunnabunich Even the trolls are jealous
@Andrew I mean the 27" iMac
@Andrew I'm seriously lusting for one of those 27'' iMacs. Saw one at the store the other day and I was in awe.
@[Highest Ranked] ah.... trolls are so cute when they're idiots.
@Froggy @Froggy exactly, just look at these MS Fanboys. I've done a study and concluded they suffer from SMSFB-R syndrome (more commonly known as Severe MS Fanboy Re`tar`dation syndrome). Pity them, fortunately it's curable.
Suck it, Apple!
I in no way see why this is a victory, for anyone.
Well didnt expect it to be this fast.
I've been on 10.6.2 on my Dell Mini 9 for around a week now.
The NetbookInstaller people patched it so that it reads as a Core Solo, and it's been working fine.
This is different in that it is a patched kernel, but honestly, it's the same final result.
And not only that, the Meklort/Tea solution allows you to run the full 10.6.2 kernel without any modification of system files.
'Course, I haven't had the guts to mess with it yet, because my 10.6.1 Mini9 runs like it was designed for OSX.
The Hackintosh scene has done this before. Replacing a kernel is relatively old news. This was the only way to run OS X on Amd machines (voodoo kernel). I used to do this all the time before I got a Mac....
it has been hacked weeks ago... so behind
Fortunately, Darwin is open source, hence it's so much easier to hack and recompile.
Uh, we at InsanelyWind.com have had it fixed like 3 days after it came out. I am typing on 10.6.2 MSI Wind right now. These tech blogs don't even look at the smaller sites. We have finished this AGES ago.
Engadget is way late on this moving on Sometimes it looks like apple uses the hacintosh community as a Guinea pig they always get the new hardware to test mac os x on.
... Compiling your own "OS X" kernel is really, really easy. This is not now, and never was actual news. OSX86 hackers have been compiling custom kernels to use with OS X since the deadmoo image.
How there they?!
Why would anyone bother? Snow Leopard = Vista's nasty cousin.
@m3tric lol. Spoken like a true fanboi.
So they hacked the hack? Nice! Hxrz FTW!
It was only a matter of time
You're a little out of the loop about Hackintosh use: many, if not most, of them have used modified kernels since the start of the movement -- generally using a variant of the Vodoo kernel.
If it's an Intel Core Duo or higher it can run the vanilla/stock kernel. AMD and some Intel require a patched kernel, such as Voodoo.
I would say many/most using a modified kernel is a gross overstatement.
Dudes, this news is so old. The patch was up and working within hours of 10.6.2 going live.
Er.... being able to run the vanilla kernel from Apple is actually a relatively recent achievement in the hackintosh scene - we ran patched kernels from day one for various reasons - CPU family support, SSE3 opcode patching, AMD support etc.
Cmon engadget, you're like the premier tech site in the world... get someone who knows about the hackintosh scene to write these articles. Nilay Patel perhaps?
Go, Russians!
"takes some effort to install"
hmm...
sudo cp dir/atom_mach_kernel /mach_kernel
sudo reboot
Wow.. that was hard.
@Bill Brasky Normal people have a hard time remembering their own names... so writing two lines or more *is* hard for them XD
Inevitable.