lostsoftware Posted October 12, 2006 Share Posted October 12, 2006 Now, i know im probably in the wrong spot of the world, but I was thinking the other day. I have a linux PDA which is a unix based OS stripped completly and put into working form on a small device. An iPod must be capable of this aswell. so from a Mac, the iPod uses the HFS+ File system as does OS X. and the iPod has a large enough hard-drive to be able to install OS X. The only problem i could see with this not working, is user interface. I figure if we could start stripping down an iPod version of OS X if anyone is really interested in this. any suggestions? Your BFF, lostsoftware Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AriX Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 lol no offense but this is a really stupid idea here are the most obvious reasons: wrong processor not fast enough processor if you plan to emulate no drivers not enough ram too small of a screen no mouse or keyboard no internet capability and MUCH MUCH more if you are looking into alternative OS's for the ipod though, check out ipodlinux http://ipodlinux.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostsoftware Posted October 13, 2006 Author Share Posted October 13, 2006 ima make it work damnit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Overdriven Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 lol no offense but this is a really stupid ideahere are the most obvious reasons: wrong processor not fast enough processor if you plan to emulate no drivers not enough ram too small of a screen no mouse or keyboard no internet capability and MUCH MUCH more if you are looking into alternative OS's for the ipod though, check out ipodlinux http://ipodlinux.org/ Fully concur. The most retarded point is that the full source of OS X isn't out there to be recompiled for the processor. You phail™ -neospy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 there's just no sane possible way to get osx to run on an ipod. you would have to completely rewrite the entire an entire os, one who's source code isn't available. to me the default os is as close to osx as you can really put on a portable media player. if you want something other than that, ipod linux really is a good choice, follow AriX's advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeezoflip Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 Well....its not a stupid idea, but no, it wont work. And never will unless apple releases an iPod with at least a 800mhz processor in it and at least 256 mb or ram. Which, i dont know why you would need that power for a portable music player, but w/e. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munky Posted October 13, 2006 Share Posted October 13, 2006 to be fair, it might be possible to get darwin to work, if you're a REALLY good programmer, and that could possibly be considered a 'cut down version of OS X'. however, there wouldn't be much point... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falseadress Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 zune might be a bit better to hack wouldn't it has wifi too ppl have gotton mac system 6 or 7 on to the nintendo ds already Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 if you want to try something along those lines, how about osx on a 360? that would be freakin sweet! you have usb ports for keyboard/mouse, enough ram and processing power, and a disc drive. it just getting it to all work... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Win95 can run emulated on a PSP and RedHat on PS2, PS3 will support natively installed OS's Dont forget Win98 can go on XBOX with Qemu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostsoftware Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 if you want to try something along those lines, how about osx on a 360? that would be freakin sweet! you have usb ports for keyboard/mouse, enough ram and processing power, and a disc drive. it just getting it to all work... if i could afford a 360 i'd love to try it, but being a student and having a {censored} cooking job doesn't pull in the money. but im avaliable for donations hehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 before i think about donating, i have to get mine fixed... couple weeks ago mine went bad (M$ didn't soder the chips right) and now i have to pay to get it fixed. if we could get it working though that would be awsome! 3 x 2.3 ghz chips! we could have a competing system with the mac pro for about $300. and if we could get the ram upgraded...now i'm just dreaming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 actually... an article on digg.com that i read claimed that a person got os x to start on a 25 mhz processor. http://digg.com/apple/Old_mac_collector_ge...68040_from_1993 i still don't think os x will ever happen on an ipod lol... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostsoftware Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 i still don't think os x will ever happen on an ipod lol... yeah, it was more of just wishful thinking. i think the new thing will be developing for the xbox 360. ill have to get one to test on and what not, but i think its more than plausible. just gotta start on learning the processors of the xbox and developing for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostsoftware Posted November 26, 2006 Author Share Posted November 26, 2006 got the xbox 360 yesterday, and started working on it. hopefully dont void a warrenty or f*** anything up tooo bad. <3 wish it luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickg331 Posted February 6, 2007 Share Posted February 6, 2007 if anyone saw the hack with the NES controller hookeed up to play doom on a n ipod, it might be possible to do the same with a keyboard/mouse? still, the source isnt available/millions of other problems but keyboard would be interesting for a notes program on ipodlinux no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLLBRBT Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 Is iPhone not OS X on an ipod? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KLLBRBT Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 Explain, according to apple.com "iPhone combines three products — a revolutionary mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls" and it runs OS X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 The iPhone is a combination device that has a different processor architecture than the iPod. Then you have to consider memory on the two devices. The iPhone probably has ~512MB onboard memory for the system while the iPod might have ~16-32MB. EDIT: These are just assumptions and mean nothing in terms of specs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iLux Posted February 25, 2007 Share Posted February 25, 2007 The iPhone is a combination device that has a different processor architecture than the iPod. Then you have to consider memory on the two devices. The iPhone probably has ~512MB onboard memory for the system while the iPod might have ~16-32MB. EDIT: These are just assumptions and mean nothing in terms of specs. Both of them use ARM. More importantly, who knows if the current iPod isn't running OS X ? Apple never made public the OS of the iPod (except for the first generation ones, which used Pixo) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Ok, a few things I would like to point out: 1. iPod OSX would be possible 2. iPod OSX would be really unusable on that small screen It could be possible but it would really suck on that small screen and running applications on it would be useless because they would take endless time to load and the weak processor with very low memory would make the programs very slow to make simple operation. The iPod was made to play audio files not run a operating system that is on two dvds and runs on expensive computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifki Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Not possible, if i recall the arm chip doesnt even have mmx or sse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bikedude880 Posted February 28, 2007 Share Posted February 28, 2007 Now there is nothing saying that a BSD system wouldn't be able to run on the iPod. Right now it's just a matter of porting over quite a few changes for the proc and some various other things XD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ramm Posted March 2, 2007 Share Posted March 2, 2007 And making it work with a scroll wheel... Rotate 180º right to move the cursor up, 180º left to go down, and think really hard to make it move left or right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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