Linux Coming to Power Mac G5

Posted by pudge on Tuesday June 24, 2003 @09:14AM from the we-expect-nothing-less dept.

Justen writes "Terra Soft, the people behind Yellow Dog Linux (YDL), announced that they will be supporting the new Power Mac G5. Since they are an Apple Authorized Reseller, you can purchase your Power Mac G5 through Terra Soft and have YDL pre-installed on a separate partition from Mac OS X. According to Terra Soft, 'as Yellow Dog Linux was in 2000 enabled for the IBM Power3 by IBM Lab and Linuxcare, and subsequently for the Power4, the effort to support the 970-based Apple computers is anticipated to be completed with relative ease.' Life is good. Anyone wanna loan me $2,000?"

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Re:maybe i need linux? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-06-24 09:42 · Score: -1, Redundant

Since you say you have 64MB, I assume you're running OS 9, which had cooperative multitasking and limited multithreading; which often meant that one app would hog the processor and slow everything else to a crawl.

Still, your Mac does sound excessively slow. Have you tried de-fragmenting your drive recently? Otherwise, it's probably just your machine running short of memory, OS 9 and Netscape together will take up most of your 64MB RAM, so if you'v disk space free, try increasing the amound of virtual memory you've allocated.

Mike.