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netkas.org
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netkas.org is a personal blog at netkas.org about hardware and programming. Since 2009, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Metal supported GPUs”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link netkas.org, a Mac hacker's blog on booting macOS on non-Apple hardware and on OS X hardware compatibility. It is cited in threads on Hackintosh bootloaders and the Psystar dispute.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Metal supported GPUs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-06-13
- /?p=622 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-10-23
What Hacker News says?
Ouch, I had forgotten about those specific devices. I had a Mac Mini Core Duo that I had upgraded to a Core2 Duo and was never able to get Snow Leopard to boot into 64-bit mode. I was able to get Linux and even OpenBSD installed on it using the previously mentioned bootia32.efi method. Also, you may be able to boot 64-bit macOS on your system if you follow the netkas.org link from your everymac.com link: http://netk…
Comment linking /?p=189
on “Ventoy: A new bootable USB solution”Submitted Apple macOS Sierra beta no longer allows unsigned apps to run as a story · 16 points
HN discussionI'm curious how much Metal matters but it seems like they went from GPU to CPU in Yosemite and then back to the GPU. The review sorta skimmed on Metal but reported that it only worked on a Mac Pro 2013, which lead me to wonder why my 2008 Mac Pro couldn't run it with a GeForce 680 GTX, turns out it can. http://netkas.org/?p=1405
Comment linking /?p=1405
on “OS X 10.11 El Capitan: Review”Submitted Bringing back 32-bit apps to life as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI agree with this post except for this part: > The video cards in the last generation of MacPro's could only be upgraded to the cards offered directly from Apple or the handful Mac-specific parts offered by third parties. With it's unusual form factors, the new MacPro will probably offer even fewer options. Since OSX 10.7-ish a lot of cards have "just worked". Before then using a PC card was a bit of a crap shoot, b…
Comment linking /
on “Mac Pro Late 2013 Teardown”Submitted Bye bye Lion on CoreDuo as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you held on to that machine for a few more years it would have been dropped by OS X Yosemite, but then hilariously still supported by essentially making the machine a Hackintosh! https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2006-2007-mac-pro-1-1-2... https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2006-2007-mac-pro-1-1-2... A similar situation played out when macOS Sierra dropped support for 2008–2009 models that can be re-enabled…
Comment linking /forum/index.php?topic=852.0
on “Should I buy an Intel Mac today or wait to buy an Arm-based Mac?”Submitted About possible 3200×2000 Apple displays (hardware analysis) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionResolution independence - IMO that's never gonna happen. Apple will do the pixel-doubling thing, I reckon. Netkas has confirmed the following about Lion: ( http://netkas.org/?p=609 ) >Lion requires hardware with a Core 2 Duo processor or better. A lot of apps are sandboxed. OpenGL 3.2 support
Comment linking /?p=609
on “New Mac OS X Lion features announced: Version Control, Instant Resume”Submitted Metal supported GPUs as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think it was the netkas pc_efi bootloader. They have been using it for a while it looks like: http://netkas.org/?p=62
Comment linking /?p=62
on “Psystar releases the software they use to install MacOS on non-Apple hardware”Submitted Safari pop-up hell as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDid Matt at Geek Technica even look into the issue beyond the initial accusation by netkas accusation? If I say that netkas stole the code from me, will he similarly parrot this entirely false statement on my behalf? According to this iHackintosh post < http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/01/download-pc-efi-v9-chamel... , netkas's bootloader is based on Chameleon. Indeed, the readme in that package reads, "These two pro…
Comment linking /?page_id=21&
on “Psystar Steals Open Source Bootloader and Sells it for $50”Submitted Using Thunderbolt in tandem with discrete GPU as a story · 1 points
HN discussionTo be fair: the license text at http://netkas.org/?p=62 doesn't look like "open source" to me. It's a non-commercial-use-only thing that quite clearly doesn't meet the standards of the open source definition. Doesn't mean that Psystar has the right to use it, of course. Just that it doesn't look particularly valuable to the community either. The author is cheesed because he/she isn't being paid, not because Psystar…
Comment linking /?p=62
on “Psystar Steals Open Source Bootloader and Sells it for $50”Yeah, this was a very uncritical puff piece. Psystar has been selling the open source stuff as their own, directly in violation of the APSL, etc. Here are some references: http://netkas.org/?p=62 http://netkas.org/?p=310
Comment linking /?p=310
on “The brothers behind Psystar - detailed article”It's not a lack of horsepower. It's an infuriating artificial restriction against running 64-bit Darwin kernels on 32-bit EFI. There's no technical reason why a 64-bit kernel can't be launched by a 32-bit EFI, but for some reason Apple has decided that 64-bit kernels will only boot from 64-bit EFI, and Mountain Lion will ship with a 64-bit kernel. See http://netkas.org/?p=830 for more. edit: Oh, and as to your white…
Comment linking /?p=830
on “Apple's OS X Mountain Lion: The Macs that will be left behind”
