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Gentoo Offers PPC LiveCDs

Posted by timothy on from the ask-and-receive dept.

drunkentiger writes "Ripped right off their homepage: In a recent Slashdot article, someone asked if it were possible to create a fully-featured bootable Linux LiveCD for the Macintosh. We thought this was a great idea. So today, we are releasing two full-featured LiveCDs for the PowerPC: one with KDE 3, and another with GNOME 2. Take a look at the KDE LiveCD running MacOS X in a window via Mac on Linux. LiveCDs can be downloaded here or from these mirrors."

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  1. Requirements? by mrseigen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm assuming I can boot this on my older PCI Mac (PowerWave 604/120, old mac clone). Does anyone know differently?

  2. So much for Yellow Dog by corebreech · · Score: 4, Interesting

    SuSE had a decent PPC distribution too. This seems like such a no-brainer... probably the only way you could expect widespread adoption from the Mac crowd.

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    Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
  3. Re:Get a hold of these guys by carl67lp · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm a documentation editor for Gentoo, and I know first-hand that many, if not all, of the developers scour the Web (well, their favorite sites, like Slashdot, anyhow) and report back any news about Gentoo in the press. They gladly take the bad news with the good--using the bad, as in this case (the former lack of a PPC LiveCD) to retool things, add new features, and generally make people happier.

    A lot of people scoff at the Gentoo fanatacism--including the developers--but at least, in this case, I think a lot of that is warranted. Perhaps not all of it, mind you, but definitely a lot. I think we're a good bunch of guys and gals.

  4. Re:Apple vs PC - Without the Flame War by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Uhm, well I'm going to answer this in two ways:

    First, if your friend is just into *nix, then OSX is an option, without any Linux whatsoever.

    Second, there is no reason whatsoever to pay the prices on Apple's hardware unless you plan on using Apple's software. Which isn't to say it's not worth paying for Apple's hardware, it just seems to be a strange choice, paying extra for a software/hardware bundle and not using the software.

    So, in summary:

    Get a clone if you want a cheap Linux box (do hardware research FIRST mind you).

    Get a Mac if you want the best consumer Unix currently available and installing Linux is just an added bonus.

  5. Gentoo icon by sdibb · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When are we gonna see a Gentoo icon for Slashdot, like the other Linux distros have?

  6. Linux boot problems on Macs. by BrookHarty · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I tried playing around with yellow dog, but sometimes it would mess with my boot sequence, and I couldnt boot into OSX native mode.

    This would be great, you dont have to touch the mac's boot sectors.

  7. Re:Very funny, not very fair. by xtrucial · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't have much to add, but... right on! I agree. While my Gentoo install was difficult, and I still have trouble (trying to get NTP running), I end up learning *a lot* about Linux/UNIX. And that's part of the process, isn't it? I mean, if I wanted something that "just works", I'd run OS X or whatever. But the thing is, I'm a geek, so I enjoy tinkering and understanding *how* computer stuff works; I'm not satisfied just knowing that it *does* work. Of course, all of this has practical application too: getting compensated in the work world for one's expert knowledge.