03/15/2006, 9:25am, EST
Wednesday, March 15th
OpenOSX updates WinTel 2.1.2
"With the availability of the Intel based Macintoshes, instructions may be dynamically translated, drastically enhancing performance." OpenOSX claims that WinTel 2.1.2 is capable of booting Windows XP in about 35 seconds on the Intel 2.0 GHz-Duo iMac with the stock 512-MB of RAM installed. WinTel contains three sets of binaries optimized for PowerPC G4, G5 and Intel processors.
Version 2.1.2 resolves a potential issue with WinTel's "Image CD-ROM" feature (which images CD-ROMs to an ISO-9660 disk image usable by WinTel), and brings hand-compiled, aggressively optimized Bochs binaries that can be used to install Windows XP in about 10 percent of the time previously required. WinTel includes two underlying "virtual machines" or "emulators": one is "Qemu" which is utilizes some dynamic translation for maximum performance and a slower, more compatible "Bochs," which it says is required at this time to install Windows XP on Intel Macs.
OpenOSX WinTel includes 10 ready-to-use disk images of open source x86-based operating systems including: FreeBSD, Red Hat Linux, FreeDOS and more. The product also features a stand-alone application featuring a drag-install backed with limited installation support and tutorials. OpenOSX says that WinTel 2.1.0 has been successfully tested running Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 and Windows XP.
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http://www.kberg.ch/q/
It's a free and open source cocoa front end to qemu. There is very little (if any) benefit to buying anything from OpenOSX. They just take open source projects, add in a bunch of buzzwords to the description, and sell them.
As stated on the main Q page.
I am hoping and waiting for dual boot.
Quote: ( From http://www.kberg.ch/q/ )
Universal Binaries It seams the Universal Binaries are pretty stable for the most *nix and BSD OSes. Win2k is reported to work ok, too. The main Problem is with WinXP and Win98 at the moment: - Win98 will not correctly reboot after the initial install. (see Forum for workaround) - WinXP will terminate with a catalog not found error during installation.
We have added a lot of polish to Q.app, to make the switching experience from VPC or QemuX as comfortable as possible.
FWIW...WinTel IS just a pretty front-end to open source tools. I bought it just to make it easier but probably didn't need to. YMMV.
I did get an email from OpenOSX today with the link to the image for the 2.1.3.
XP installed perfectly and actually runs pretty well. (At least a fair amount better than it did on my 1.5Ghz G4 PB with VPC.)
Still a little slow but all I need it for is for one web-based web-content management application I use that will only run under window IE. For that it runs just fine and the update email from openosx was welcome.