Kexts, or kernel extensions are drivers that are installed to /System/Library/Extensions/.Kext files often have the “.kext” extension and allow for extra hardware support and and in the case of OSx86, to replace Appleʼs original drivers with ones that are optimized for use on PCs. Leopard holds kext files/folders in the /System/Library/Extensions folder, at boot time the relevant kext are uploaded from Extensions.mkext this is a cache folder that contains kext related to the installed hardware. If you loves your hackintosh then take a full backup of your kexts because …

As we know Chameleon 2.0 first GUI bootloader is now available in the wild check here. Latest Chameleon has many new features like themes, UI, EFI support and many more. If you are looking for installing and testing the all new chameleon you are, remember it’s a RC release not a final release. Last night i have digging the forums and collected some useful information for you. Please go through the process twice o thrice before doing anything. It may have some issues right now so before starting please take …

After a long wait, finally the GUI bootloader is here. Yes Chameleon 2.0 is out in the wild. It is a RC1 release and available in binaries. The official announcement is as follows “ Right before 1st of April we’re gladly introducing the Release Candidate 1 version of Chameleon 2.0 for public download. Now supporting GUI booting, and all other features we mentioned in the previous articles. “ Chameleon 2.0 supports many new features like “ You can select from many partitions across multiple disks. Even the foreign OS …

Safari 4 is claimed as the world’s fastest web browser by Apple. Safari 4 brings a bunch of new features, including a flashy new Top Sites view, a completely redesigned Windows UI, and support for some impressive emerging Web standards. safari 4 beta got 100/100 on the Acid3 test. (Firefox 3.0.5 scores 71/100.) Safari 4 is designed for Mac OS X 10.5.6 and Snow Leopard (upcoming). Still many OSX86 user doesn’t upgraded to 10.5.6 yet. For the peoples who don’t have 10.5.6 and want to try the Safari 4 beta …

Netkas the Genius behind Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) get the rid of ATI Radeon 4XXX series in Hackintosh systems. With 10.5.7 ATI driver it’s finaly possible to get radeon hd 4850/4870 to work in leopard, it has some bugs yeah, but u can get it working fine. Netkas also confirmed that 10.5.7 vanila kernel works fine on core i7 Nehalem Processor with Gigabyte Motherboard. According to Netkas he Extracted 10.5.7 beta ATI drivers (jsut five kexts) and new natit, for making 4850 working in 10.5.6 Leopard. Many users confirms their …

 
Hara Taiki man behind iPC 10.5.6 and iPC X DL with PCWIZ announced his latest project iPC X 132 an alternative replacement of Boot 132 based retail install. Boot 132 hack can install retail version of Mac OS X Leopard on PC. Advantage of Boot 132 is its ability to install updates directly from software update. hands over to Hara Taiki Announcement of iPC X 132 “ I’m going to preview iPC X-132, our boot-132 solution. Please note that this is based on lifeboat13 which I posted about in an …

iPC is the most advanced OSX86 distro from the house of PCWIZ. iPC comes in two flavours one is iPC 10.5.6 universal and second one is iPC X – DL which is a live DVD version but it comes in Dual Layer DVD. This post is dedicated to iPC 10.5.6 here we list successful configuration for iPC 10.5.6 You can also contribute into this post by leaving a comment below.If you have any question just leave a comment below.Before reading this post you should take a look at Complete Driver …

After PCWIZ the time is for Layne, Cri900 to release OSX86 10.5.6, Yes iDeneb 10.5.6 is out and available at Green Demon or Rapidshare. iDeneb V1.4 10.5.6 is supported both Intel and AMD processors with support of SSE2, SSE3. You have the option of both Chameleon and EFIV9 bootloaders. Ati Radeon 4XXX series is still missing although the distro has a large number of driver support. This release of iDeneb is optimized for netbooks including Acer Aspire A150, Samsung NC10 and MSI Wind. Lets take a quick look at …

CultofMac reported a wonderful post showing a netbook with OSX86 & 80 running applications simultaneously. It proves the capability of both OSX and Netbook.According to CultofMac “I’ve been trying to determine Atom’s performances with Mac OS X for some time now, and I think this shows Atom’s netbooks are not so crippled!” Netbooks are a small fraction & growing very rapidly and grabbing a good amount of laptop market share. This experiment is answer for those who doubts the possibility of netbooks & Intel Atom Processor. 
 
Hardware is:
* Atom N270 @1.6ghz
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After the successful release of iPC 10.5.6 OSX86 PCWIZ released yet another master creation with HARA TAIKI.Lets take a quick look at the new release.It is a Live DVD so you can use & preview OSX before installation.Minimum 1.1 GB ram is required for booting. It also comes with an option to install Mac OSX Server edition but you have to buy a serial key for that.ISO sized at 6.5GB so you need to have a dual layer DVD + DVD RW. Admin/Root  account password is “ipclive” (without quotes)for the Live DVD …