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Old 09-27-2008, 05:14 PM
enjourni enjourni is offline
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Looks good

I have an obvious suggestion, but one I think nearly all OSx86 authors overlook.

Include a ton of help info in the installer as to WHICH SYSTEMS SHOULD APPLY WHICH PATCHES!

Let me give you guys the noob thinking pattern... "do I need AppleSIMBIOS patch? Which kernel should I install? What features do the different kernels have? What is EFIStudio? What is AppleHDAPatcher? Do I need any of this stuff?..."

Most distros completely lack sufficient info to help you figure out what extras you should install. They just assume you know your hardware and which patches you should apply, but it's very rare that a person would know this info straight out of the bat. This kind of thing makes it very difficult for a noob to install OSx86.

At the very least include a readme file on how to find out what hardware you have so you'll have some sort of clue what patches to apply. I finally found DriverMax to scan my system for all the details. But even after that I had to search the insanelymac forum for countless hours to figure out which kext I needed. This kind of stuff should be handled by the OSx86 distros. (Yes I know new fixes come out all the time, but why include fixes on the distros without help on what they fix/which systems need those fixes?)

Ok I'm off my soapbox now.
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