my XP/vista resell license allows anything with a code on case and either original CD or recovery cd/partition

does apple do this with leopard or jaguar or cougar or kitty cat or tiger or mountain lion?

also tell me about yellowhat or ubuntu 6 or SOMETHING FUCKING FREE. fuckers

i got mad powerbook g4s and imac g3s, but not sure of the OS transfer limitations, since i dban every drive when i get a computer. also got a few g5 towers but i actually have software with those so im good there.

just trying to stay legal, YO

9/3/2009 7:59:43 PM

THE OOLLLLOLOLOLOLOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLD BALL COACH

actually it might be good strategy by south carolina

we'll see

9/3/2009 8:05:26 PM

The OEM System Disks generally don’t install on different models of Macs (but are somewhat easy to hack…).

The retail install disks are transferable, as long as you remove it from the original machine. This is enforced solely through the honor system though.

There is no activation or registration or even license keys at all for OS X installs.

If you have some machines with blank drives, i don’t know if anything in the EULA that would prohibit you from putting the OS that came with the machine on there. Realistically, I don’t think anyone is going to care period for putting an OS on there that’s not the latest from Apple (because you can’t buy older OSes from Apple) in any situation.

9/3/2009 8:12:55 PM

thats what im kinda wondering, but i cant find any statement from apple about this and have no business relationship with them so no real contact.

i guess i could always sell them blank and let people do what they want so its off my shoulders. thanks for the info though.

if anyone has info about something non-cat related also, that'd be great

9/3/2009 8:30:30 PM

Yellow Dog Linux specializes in Apple hardware.

And Ubuntu use to maintain (they no longer do, AFAIK) a PPC distro of Ubuntu.

If you’re thinking free, Yellow Dog Linux is probably going to be the easiest to get going. It is based on Red Hat.

9/3/2009 9:48:19 PM

Quote :

"And Ubuntu use to maintain (they no longer do, AFAIK) a PPC distro of Ubuntu."

thats what i was wondering, i mention ubuntu 6 because thats the last powerpc distro i could locate, they don't support it anymore unless i'm missing something big

also... yellow dog, that must be what im thinking of. for the next 7 or 8 weeks i'll be working with an intern who is really into macs... and since im not a douchebag who thinks i know everything (lol tech talk) then i'll gladly take some protips from him. i thought he said yellowhat.

do you know at what point the whole 'powerpc' thing comes into play, is that for any apple using intel chipsets?

as for the whole free thing, i'd like to explore some of the free options if there are any... but free isnt really the goal since i could sell without OS just as easily.

just trying to broaden my skillz while i have these things, might keep a powerbook and a g5 if they r awesome

9/4/2009 6:35:06 AM

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"do you know at what point the whole 'powerpc' thing comes into play, is that for any apple using intel chipsets? "

I’m not 100% on what you’re asking here. But PowerPC is a processor made by IBM and/or Motorola. It’s what Apple used before they used Intel. So a linux designed for an Intel Mac won’t run on a PowerPC Mac and vice-versa. Apple’s software between Tiger and up to Snow Leopard was “universal” and they had their stuff able to boot on both architectures.

9/4/2009 8:16:14 AM

oic, i was way way off in my understanding. i thought powerpc was a transition phase between (what i now know to be) motorola and intel chipsets. it actually is the motorola/freescale chip?

my misunderstanding that anything claiming to be powerpc was using the new intel architecture might explain why the ppc distributions aren't working very well for me that would also explain my confusion at snow leopard not supporting powerpc

9/6/2009 12:51:33 PM

The G4 Apple used was primarily designed by motorola/freescale. The G3 and G5 were designed by IBM mostly. The 603e and 604 (and 601…) were jointly designed, IIRC, but were still primarily IBM Power-based designs. Motorola was used in the (non-PowerPC ) 68k series ('020, '030, '040) but that was WAAAAY before the era of Macs you were talking about.

All the machines you mentioned in the first post are PowerPC based, so those SHOULD be working.. it’s the Intel distros ones that aren’t going to work.

The G5s are very fast machines still (about as fast/clock often faster as the first-gen Intel Core processor) if you can get a recent OS X for them.

The Powerbooks are decent Internet/word processing machines, and the G3s are good to run older kids games on.

9/6/2009 3:12:29 PM

my update

so last week i finally figured out that the first 3 i tried on wouldnt even take a os10 install, so they were just fucked up and thats why they were given to me i guess

openSUSE ppc works just fine on all the models i have, but its still a pain in the ass to find software

apple really must hate developers

10/4/2009 8:22:49 PM