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A Hackintosh (/ ˈ h æ k ɪ n t ɒ ʃ /, a portmanteau of "Hack" and "Macintosh") is a computer that runs Apple's operating system macOS on computer hardware that is not authorized for the purpose by Apple. [1] This is due to the software license for macOS only permitting its use on in-house hardware built by Apple itself, in this case the Mac ...
A Macintosh clone is a computer running the Classic Mac OS operating system that was not produced by Apple Inc. The earliest Mac clones were based on emulators and reverse-engineered Macintosh ROMs. During Apple's short lived Mac OS 7 licensing program, authorized Mac clone makers were able to either purchase 100% compatible motherboards or ...
In 2012, Microsoft Windows 8 Enterprise Edition followed, by introduced Windows To Go functionality to allow the operating system to boot and run from mass storage devices such as USB flash drives thus enabling BYOOS in the Windows family of operating system similar to that of a Linux live CD/DVD.
PureDarwin is a project to create a bootable operating system image from Apple's released source code for Darwin. [43] Since the halt of OpenDarwin and the release of bootable images since Darwin 8.x, it has been increasingly difficult to create a full operating system as many components became closed source.
Mac OS X Panther: October 24, 2003 Version 10.3; Macintosh computers (PowerPC and x86) Mac OS X Tiger: April 29, 2005 Version 10.4; Mac OS X Leopard: October 26, 2007 Version 10.5; Macintosh computers Mac OS X Snow Leopard: August 28, 2009 Version 10.6; Mac OS X Lion: July 20, 2011 Version 10.7; Also marketed as OS X Lion; OS X Mountain Lion ...
Computer kits include all of the hardware (and sometimes the operating system software, as well) needed to build a complete computer. Because the components are pre-selected by the vendor, the planning and design stages of the computer-building project are eliminated, and the builder's experience will consist solely of assembling the computer ...
FreeBSD is a free-software Unix-like operating system descended from the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD). The first version was released in 1993 developed from 386BSD [3] —the first fully functional and free Unix clone—and has since continuously been the most commonly used BSD-derived operating system.
The Migration Assistant does not transfer the operating system of the old computer to the new one. Similarly, applications and utilities bundled by Apple with the operating system (e.g. Safari) are not transferred, based on the assumption that the newer machine has the same or newer version already installed. However, settings for these ...