I have released a new version (2.5) of hfsdebug. The new version fixes a bug in the calculation of free space blocks on a volume, and now all features are supported on both the PowerPC and x86 versions of Mac OS X. In particular, hfsdebug no longer uses the /dev/kmem device for displaying kernel-memory-resident mount [...]

We have developed software (“BAMBIOS”) that allows such legacy booting on the Intel-based Macintoshes. For example, a regular (that is, non-EFI) version of Linux can be readily booted using this software.
A mini presentation on the design of BAMBIOS is available.

Yes, it works. In fact, it works really, really well (performance-wise).
Please go here for the initial announcement and a customary screenshot of Windows XP running under the Linux version of VMware. The hardware in question is a 17-inch iMac.

I reported a few days ago that we (my friends Mark A. Smith and Benjamin Reed, and myself) had Linux booting on the Intel-based Macintosh. We also released a test-drive mini-distribution that can be trivially booted by anybody interested.
The subject says it all regarding this update. Pictures and some details are available here.
Please use this [...]

Trivially Running Front Row on a Macintosh without an Infrared Controller describes how you can trivially (without any programming or binary patching) tag an existing HID device (such as a mouse or a keyboard) to be considered as remote-control-capable. One side effect of doing so is that Apple’s Front Row will run on such a [...]

I do have strange friends. Take Mark Smith, for example. Mark is essentially a Windows Internals guy — I would call him OS-agnostic at best. In particular, he is certainly not a “Macintosh person”. However, he recently purchased an Intel-based Macintosh because he felt like running Linux (an operating system that he does not normally [...]