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March 31st 2008 OSx86 roundup

apowerr

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Thread at Zephyroth's forums

As posted by our own Puttabong, a new 9.2.2 kernel and system.kext have appeared on irc.osx86.hu :

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This kext and kernel were made by Team of Hackintosh, or ToH. This release is universal. This kernel is working fine for me and many others.

Known Bugs: Some users are reporting kernel panics on reboot, so as always be sure to have everything backed up. Regardless of your CPU, system profiler shows cores as 1 while both cores still work and are shown in activity monitor.

 

~pcwiz, well known for his many contributions to the OSx86 Project (such as his recent kernel installer) has released Leo4VMware, which evidently allows the installation of Mac OS 10.5 as a Virtual Machine. This release comes just two days after ~pcwiz successfully installed OS 10.5 in VMware. This release is also confirmed to be working inside of VMware fusion (~pcwiz beat apple to it :D ).

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Finally, prepare for more update woes (unless you're lucky enough to have a vanilla install :P ) because Appleinsider reports that Apple has begun testing Mac OS 10.5.3 .

The Mac maker on Thursday informed its vast developer community of the availability of Mac OS X 10.5.3 Build 9D10, a pre-release copy of the software update featuring a focus list spanning some two dozen core components.

 

Among those components in need of evaluation, people familiar with the matter tell AppleInsider, are AddressBook, AppleScript, Audio, Back To My Mac, Dashboard, the Dock, DVD Player, Finder, Graphics, iCal, Mail, Portable Home Directories, Printing, Rosetta, Spaces, Spotlight, Time Machine, and VoiceOver.

 

In a set of developer notes reported to have accommodated the update, Apple is also said to have listed 75 code corrections that have already been baked into this first external build, including two aimed at critical memory leaks within CoreAnimation and iCal.

 

Other fixes target Dashboard, iCal alarms and syncing, Installer App, Spotlight indexing, PDFs within the Preview App, Mail alarms, Spaces, Stacks and the Dock.

 

Mac OS X 10.5.3 is presumed for a release sometime in April or May.

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~pcwiz

~pcwiz 6

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Thanks for mentioning Leo4VMware erei :D

stroke

stroke 1

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It's a common misconception that with EFI you can do updates strait from Apple. You still need to patch the update.

~pcwiz

~pcwiz 6

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Theoretically you can I think. I don't know about Leopard (I know you need to patch the 10.5.2 update) but in Tiger 10.4.10 with EFI, I updated everything straight from Apple (including the 10.4.11 update) with NO patching at all.

macgirl

macgirl 42

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It's a common misconception that with EFI you can do updates strait from Apple. You still need to patch the update.

Depends on the update.

 

I update Time Machine and last sec-upd. on my lappy without pathces, on my AMD I can update even without patch but running different kernel.

stroke

stroke 1

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Well, yeah, I meant the system updates (most non-system-version updates are fine). People think with EFI they can't just go wade in Apple updates and be alright, which usually isn't the case.

erbic

erbic 1

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No News Team badge yet? You've had several good news posts.

How long does the evaluation process last?

apowerr

apowerr 9

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No News Team badge yet? You've had several good news posts.

How long does the evaluation process last?

 

Not sure, two weeks I think so it should be up soon. I'm glad appreciate my news posts =)

 

Well, yeah, I meant the system updates (most non-system-version updates are fine). People think with EFI they can't just go wade in Apple updates and be alright, which usually isn't the case.

Thats true, but aside from the major 10.5.x releases, all updates are typically fine if you have EFI. And if you have a near-vanilla install (kernel and important kexts, of course drivers are going to be non vanilla), then you are just incredibly fortunate and can update anything and everything.

Templeton Peck

Templeton Peck 0

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It's funny that it's AMD-only. AMD-compatibility generally implies Intel compatibility + the removal of CPUID references. I wonder if the patch was designed to exclude Intel as a joke, rather than for technical reasons. Intentional or not, it's still pretty funny :huh:

 

I applaud the effort, regardless.

mac_cute

mac_cute 1

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@erei33

 

Really,you are posting very good news related with OSx86.But I was wondering (really) why you still don't have your News Team badge (I know,maybe two weeks)...Good work.

Luminaire

Luminaire 0

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God damn I'm happy with my iMac when reading this :angel:.

 

Then again, I wish i could upgrade the VGA >_>

 

Maybe it's time for a mac pro? :P

Suhail

Suhail 0

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The badge will be coming soon :wacko:.

~anima

~anima 0

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The 9.2.2 Kernel is binpatched by modbin, its universal and Intel/amd/sse3 no speedstep.

joe75

joe75 568

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Darwin joe-75s-acpi.local 9.3.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.3.0: Sat Mar 29 17:00:36 PDT 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.13~2/RELEASE_I386 i386

 

:P

apowerr

apowerr 9

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The 9.2.2 Kernel is binpatched by modbin, its universal and Intel/amd/sse3 no speedstep.

I believe you're right:

Heres a thread about it.

 

I'll edit the oringinal post.


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