KanadaKid Posted May 18, 2006 Share Posted May 18, 2006 I've been around here for a few months, and I've noticed an odd trend. When an ISO or DMG gets leaked, there is subsequently a patch to make it work on hardware that it's not really supposed to. This makes sense, as the patch file modifies the image and the result is golden. But then there is other things, like the powermanagement bundle that has been developed by a few people. Or the various graphics kexts in the works, ati by omni and nvidia by np_. Now these are brilliant pieces of development, and none can argue that they make the end result work, but they are by no means patches. And yet in each thread about these projects, I see someone post about where to get this patch. It even comes up when someone mentions the release of a unibin version of some application. There is almost always a question involving the word patch. For the most part, I see this and the related communities as being generally filled with "experts". What I mean by that is that most find the answers to their questions in a forum thread, and learn. Eventually everyone seems to have a pretty good idea what does what, and where to get any help they need. Through all of this, words like kext, bundle, chown and the like get absorbed. Yet somehow the word patch remains prevalent. This doesn't make sense to me, so I decided to post about it. Am I the only one seeing this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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