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Mandrake Linux 8.0 Final Released For PPC

Posted by timothy on from the ibooks-look-ever-sweeter dept.

rstewart points to this press release, writing: "Mandrake has released version 8.0 final for the PPC architecture. Now Mac users have a choice of distributions between Mandrake and Yellow Dog. Now if only we could easily buy parts and build them cheap in our basements. " And PPC choices already include SuSE, LinuxPPC, Debian, NetBSD and more.

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  1. The most important question: Firewire? by torpor · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Great that it's on PPC.

    The next question: how well does it support firewire?

    I mean, *REALLY* support it? Can I take my PB G4, get an external firewire drive, and boot straight from it into the Mandrake Linux kernel?

    Coz my internal hard drive on this PBG4 is getting mighty tight: it's already got MacOS 9.1, and a Mac OS X 10.1 partition on it...

    Firewire...

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  2. I wonder... by jallen02 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    To myself mostly, and rather quietly usually, how Apple has created OS X and made it excite people so much more than Linux?

    I look at Apple and the company they are. They are not special. They took existing software anyone in the world could have downloaded and turned it into something that has geeks and Mac enthusiasts alike excited.

    What did they do with their operating system that is freely available that the Linux people have been trying so hard to do on the desktop and have yet to really come through like Apple has.

    Surely the combined bulk of Linux developers is not less than the employees of Apple is it?

    Apple has taken little open source pieces and parts and turned it into a truly interesting operating system that gets a "Cool factor" from most anyone I know that likes Macs.

    Why can't Linux excite people so? Does the money make that much of a difference? Apple steps up and gets the word out using its standard marketing channels and creates a bonafide hype that people buy into, contrast to your average Linux story. Whats the give?

    I know this will be seen as off-topic but I argue it is completely relevant to any PPC, or Linux distro. If only they could somehow capture what Apple has done with OS X. Anyway.. just my quiet musings.

    None of OS X is perfect, it has bugs, but people do have faith in OS X and they keep on using it for the most part.

    While OS X does not have the share of servers nor desktops and has not proven itself in either, it definitely has the mindshare of most everyone. WE all know about it and know its supposed to be the perfect blend of desktop ease of use and a # prompt to the underlying OS.

    Just my thinking, I still don't have a good answer.

    Jeremy