Eventually, the distribution of CherryOS ceased due to the very high amount of criticism that had been directed at it.

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It is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

It can be executed on Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and other systems based on POSIX - X11.

Despite running only on x86 host architectures, the JIT emulation core runs at least 10 times as fast as the architecture-independent generic processor emulation core.

However, according to the man pages supplied with Debian s packages of PearPC, even the JIT core runs around 40 times slower than the host machine would if executing native code.

After that time, however, there was no new release until July 2011 - five and a half years later.

Individuals had also been working on builds with more features such as native CD-ROM support and even progress in emulating sound had begun.

Support for graphics acceleration was also worked on, which in theory should provide a major performance boost due to OS Xs hardware-accelerated GUI known as Quartz Extreme which is currently not supported in PearPC.

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While its PowerPC emulation handles most applications and the emulator already has an impressive feature set, the project still lacks features needed for a complete emulation of the PowerPC experience.

X86 Emulator Mac OS X On X86

The news raised a lot of questions about the future of the PearPC project, because although the project itself is a PowerPC emulator, it is used primarily to run Mac OS X on x86 machines.

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As Mac OS X can now be run natively on the x86 platform, including on non-Apple computers (albeit in contravention of the Mac OS X license agreement), interest in PearPC has waned since and attention now largely centers on running Mac OS X natively on x86 hardware or in virtualization software such as VMware Workstation.

Two of these are PearGUI, which looks like a Mac OS X application but is incompatible with current versions of PearPC, and PearPCCP (short for PearPC Control Panel), which is compatible with PearPC 0.3 and newer.

PearGUIs incompleteness annoys many users and its Create Disk Image feature is not yet complete (a severe shortcoming), but many users have praised its GUI.

PearPCCP has a built-in configuration wizard in addition to other advanced features, but is hindered by what many users believe to be an inferior interface and several bugs.

Some users also report that PearPCCP removes comments from configuration files, while PearGUI does not.

The PearPC.net website also released its own Java-based PearPC-GUI, called APE, which is part of the PearPC.net Package.

CherryOS is alleged to be simply a front-end for PearPC.

However, within hours of its announcement, questions were raised about the claims, with many experts and open-source advocates suggesting that CherryOS was nothing more than a repackaging of PearPC.

The CherryOS Emulator was re-released in March 2005 as a commercial product.

According to Cassondra Foesch, a principal author of PearPC, it still contained all or part of the code written for the PearPC Project.

CherryOS also created questions regarding the legality of commercial software developed and marketed specifically for the purpose of running Mac OS on the x86 architecture, since Apples license agreement specifically states that the operating system may only be installed on Apple-labeled computers.