Mac-on-Linux

MOL is primarily intended to be used by those who run linux/ppc as their main operating system but still want to be able to run that occasional Mac OS application. Other possible applications include:

• development
• hardware simulation
• server applications
• compatibility testing

• No CPU emulation
• very fast!
• No ROM image needed
• Complete MMU virtualization
• Idle sleep (8.6 or later)
• Very compatible
• Multi-session support
• 603, 604, G3 and G4 support

• Full screen video (fbdev, xdga)
• MMU accelereaded X11 video
• CD burners
• Generic SCSI
• Generic USB
• Audio
• Networking
• AltiVec support

• Added nvram.x installation
• Fix bootstrap check
• Fix dmdma.c strict aliasing warning
• Make sure that log and lock dirs are created
• Integrated BootX with the build system
• Added check for zlib
• Fixed test invocations (== is invalid)
• Fixed VT Switching
• Removed Sheep from defconfig
• Fixed Ubuntu -fno-stack-protector bug
• Removed duplicate nvram, fix doesn't really work
• Some docs cleanups, changed the website address
• Removed libimport script
• Fixed another MacOS segfault on startup
• Ensured that all read/write/seek disk pointers are set properly
• Removed some debugging text
• Fixed MacOS ethernet softlock (Thanks SolraBizna for noticing)
• Fixed MacOS segfault on startup (Thanks to SolraBizna for noticing)
• Changed BootX Read to pass addresses instead of casting them as long
• Fixed BootX read size bug preventing booting on QCOW/DMG
• Cleaned up a bunch of gcc4 issues
• Removed TUN from defconfig
• Updated network driver help info
• Integrated patch from Marcus Comstedt for USB mice
• Removed linux/compiler.h from USB to fix Ubuntu issue
• Fix mol-img bug
• Added support to recognize HFSX disks
• Added bootx source to main MOL build (with backports from newer BootX)
• Fixed gcc4 include issue