Apple Intel Hardware Support?

Hardware
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First off: It’s really impressive the work your team has been doing over the past decade and more to make a secure capability-focused kernel/OS.

I think it will be quite significant due to the rising cybertreat due to Mythos-level LLMs apt at cyber offense, which is also what brought me here to fortify against (CopyFail, DirtyFrag, Mythos AI Cracked Apple's Best Defense in 5 Days | InsiderLLM ).

I tried running SculptOS on my Apple Intel Hardware

  • 2019 Intel iMac 27 (Retina): 40GB Ram
  • 2011 Intel MacBook Pro: 500DB SSD, 8GB RAM

While I was able to boot into Sculpt and the Leitzentrale is displayed, I can’t interact with it.
Neither the

  • internal macbook keyboard/mouse
  • nor the iMac exterrnal keyboard/ apple touchpad (either via wire or wireless)

was able to connect. Even later plugin in an external USB logitech Mouse didn’t register (maybe it needed to have been done before boot?).

If I remember correctly there was an error popup and the ‘debark’ node was red.

I’m wondering what I can do to modify the boot image to include driver, and if anyone was apple to run SculptOS on Apple’s Intel hardware ?

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Longtime apple adopter here (I’m recovering!), and sympathetic to the predicament of what to do with older Mac hardware.

I think that it is unrealistic to expect Mac hardware will be supported anytime soon. I am also a Haiku user and, whilst there are those who have successfully done a haiku install on Intel Mac, have not myself managed it.

Your best option is probably to sell the newer machine and get a generic PC for Hauku. The older Mac will be well past OSX updates and you probably have to make do with Linux. On a Mac mini of 2011 it takes quite a while to power up from sleep, probably in part because this still has the original spinning hdd, so Linux is not perfect.