This is a quick glossary of common OSx86 terms.

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With all the publicity surrounding the 10.4.9 beta the latest improvements to the 10.4.9 update have been overlooked. The main improvement on the latest builds released (Intel: 8P2132) is a bug fix to ImageIO which should speed up mounting images as previously the bug caused discrepencies slowing down import speeds. Developer feedback states that as with previous builds 10.4.9 still maintains 100% compatibility with software that worked on previous Tiger versions. This update looks to be officially released sometime close to the launch of Leopard as it is highly likely that this will be the last maintenance update for Tiger.

Hopefully the kernel source code will be released for this in due course to allow AMD and SSE2 users to use it as currently patches only exist to allow Intel SSE3 users to operate this update.

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As news for OSx86 related topics is slow recently I thought I would point out the current FAQs our growing databse has to offer:

• Darwin Bootloader – Tells you about all the flags available and how to customise it automatically
• Intel HDA Sound – Fixes for audio codecs based on the Intel HDA specification
• Broadcom Wireless – Fixes for a selection of common WiFi cards based on the broadcom chipset

There will be more to come in the next few weeks as and when I have time to write them.

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Many wireless LAN cards are supported by OS X, especially PCI and mini-PCI ones. For the ones based on the broadcom chipset see this tutorial.

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Here we look at the most common way to get soundcards from various manufacturers with Intel High Definition Audio chipsets to work under OS X.

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