Mebster Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 I've been looking around in the wiki and come across the definitions section. I don't know about most people but although it gave a definition, it was too vague for me. For someone who doesn't know jack about this stuff it's just speaking Spanish (I speak English only - and Bengali). So what are and how do you use and in what situation do you need to use >Darwin >Rosetta >Vmware And what are the problems e.g. speed, with using them? Also exactly what does Natively mean? I know most people get it but not me. --------- On a side note: I have a modem (Thomson SpeedTouch 330 USB modem) which doesn't work because it seems I have a PPC (what’s that also) drivers for it. Under the Rosetta definition it stated: Rosetta: Apple's official emulation layer. It allows PPC Mac applications to run on OSx86. Rosetta only runs on SSE3 or patched SSE2 computers. Does that mean I can somehow use Rosetta and make the modem drivers work? Feel free to add definitions for words which might help people out. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14833-definitions/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
TokinDerrick Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Darwin is what allows mac OS X to run on intel chips Rosetta allows you to run PPC only programs on your intel mac VMware is a program that allows window users to install virtually mac os x inside of windows. and PPC stands for Power PC, which is mac hardware. your intel computer is not PPC. if these aren't fully correct, they're pretty close. anyone care to clean it up? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14833-definitions/#findComment-95119 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 Darwin is a free, open source, Unix-like operating system first released by Apple Computer in 2000. It is also the core set of components upon which Mac OS X was developed. Rosetta is a binary translator which translates PowerPC binary to Intel to make your old PowerPC apps run on Intel Macs VMWare is a virtualization application. It lets you run a different OS on top of the one that you are currently using (e.x. Windows on Linux) Native is running OSx86 on your computer without having to use a virtualization product such as VMWare. You can just start up your computer and run Mac. Also, drivers do not work under Rosetta. Just applications. Hope that helps. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14833-definitions/#findComment-95123 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted April 13, 2006 Author Share Posted April 13, 2006 So it seems you can install OSX using two methods. Either using Darwin or VMware, right? So any down sides in using each? Let me get this right in layman’s terms. If you use Darwin (as I have), your system starts up in OSX or gives you a dual boot screen if you've set that up. So this is a native loading system - thing. But if you use VMware then you have to load Windows or Linux and then open it up in a window to be able to use OSX. Is that right? Shame about Rosetta not doing drivers! Someone should tell me to work on it. Keep it flowing amigos! This is good. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14833-definitions/#findComment-95127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TokinDerrick Posted April 13, 2006 Share Posted April 13, 2006 If you use Darwin (as I have), your system starts up in OSX or gives you a dual boot screen if you've set that up. So this is a native loading system - thing. But if you use VMware then you have to load Windows or Linux and then open it up in a window to be able to use OSX. Is that right? yes (if yours is like that, thats called dual booting) and yes Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/14833-definitions/#findComment-95362 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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