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Mandrake 9.1 (Bamboo) Out For PPC

Posted by timothy on from the bondi-blue-gets-new-blood dept.

sonatinas writes "Well, Mandrake 9.1 is out for PPC processors and a nifty utility included is the Mac-on-Linux feature where you can run mac os 9/x in a window at native speed." MoL is one thing that has impressed me for years about YellowDog Linux, too.

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  1. Re:Why Linux on PPC? by Paladeen · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even if you want to run X apps on MacOSX, you're stuck with an apple-only window manager layer. The mailing lists are full of complaints about quartzwm which only Apple can now fix.

    It's perfectly possible to run some other X11 WM than Apple's. The quartz-wm is only one of many possible window managers you could be running in OS X. In fact, people were running X-Windows on OS X long before Apple got involved.

  2. And by downloading, I meant uploading by shigelojoe · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Just check the arrow in the screenshot. I know I didn't, at first glance.