A Live Linux ISO for the Mac?

Posted by Cliff on Sunday May 25, 2003 @10:16AM from the if-the-x86s-can-do-it-why-not-PowerPCs dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "My iBook is the strongest of my laptops, but it's not running my favorite OS. Knoppix and the various other live ISOs are nice for x86 machines, but (though OS X is nice, and I'm not disparaging it) it would be nice to have all the apps that come with KDE and GNOME, and to have them all available through a nice fluxbox or windowmaker desktop). I've seen smart people nearly cry trying to install Debian on their Macs, but then I've seen smart people nearly cry trying to install Debian in the first place. Knoppix has certainly made it easier to put Debian on x86 machines, but does such a thing exist for Macs? Mac OS X is a very pretty thing, and Apple has supported some great free software projects through it, it's just that on an older iBook (and older iMacs, even more so), a low-key GNU/Linux desktop moves more responsively, and has everything I need. If I could easily run a nice GNU system on them, old iMacs would be worth a lot more to me.".

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Re:Debian has come a long way. by hswerdfe · 2003-05-25 14:39 · Score: 3, Funny

if the debain install is easy now. I would hate to see what is was like before, the only way it could possibly get harder is if two guy's with baseball bats started kicking the shit out of you when you tried to install it.

p.s. I run Madrake 9.1...:D

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