hadoop on mac os x?

i have been trying to setup an hadoop cluster on some macs, but have run into the problem that apple has not yet released a version of java6, which hadoop requires, to leopard (os x 10.5.*). more specifically, apple has only released java6 for 64bit intel processors (i.e. those with core 2 monikers). it seems that there may be hope after all, as someone reports that snow leopard (10.6.*) has 32 bit java6.



looks like i may be upgrading my systems soon, though it won't do much good for my ppc-based machines.