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Linux Coming to Power Mac G5
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 $2,000?"
Sure, I'll loan you 2K. I expect you to pay it back at 16% P.A. compounded daily over 24 months. Interested? Contact me. Where's a G5 to do the interest calcs when I need one?
Oh... perhaps your really wanted me to give you 2000$? ;-)
Yellow Dog Linux has always been a great addition to the Macintosh platform. It's good to see that they are keeping up their excellent support of Apple. More choice is always good and the fact that people can buy systems directly from TerraSoft with Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed is definitely a plus.
My hope is that both Apple and TerraSoft continue to work together and bring ideas back and forth between MacOS and Linux.
Sapere aude!
Considering it's impossible to buy one that won't ship OS X, your question makes little to no sense. This isn't going to be instead of OS X, but in addition to it. You still have the privilege of paying for the Mac OS, even if you don't plan to use it.
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Maybe you should stop posting the same message over and over again, and realize that your machine doesn't run OS X, and you point is not valid at all.
This thread is about the new G5 and Yellow Dog Linux, not your problems with your old powermac, that won't even run YDL without BootX, which makes running YDL slow as hell.
Stop booing Macs because the one you run is old, and especially when your problem is the hard drive, you can stick a 7200RPM drive in any machine to make this excercise faster, mac or PC.
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Lessee:
Linux Coming to Power Mac G5
Posted by pudge on 05:14 PM June 24th, 2003
But one questions remains... (Score:0)
by Anonymous Coward on 05:20 PM June 24th, 2003
MS word says your post is 952 words long. 952 words divided by 6 minutes is a hair over 158 WPM. OH MY GOD YOU MUST BE MAVIS BEACON!
I am your biggest fan.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
For me that's 9 words in 6 minutes or a more realistic (for a Troll) 1.5 WPM.
Mavis is safe and sound; more importantly, she isn't on slashdot.
Actually I'd say you're the one who missed the point.
Pretty much all Linux apps can be compiled for all supported architectures and the pre-compiled binaries are available in several popular distributions (YDL, Debian and Gentoo spring to mind).
Besides, that's not why I, and I suspect many other folks, run Linux. It's free of restrictive licenses, you can get the source code to everything, you can reconfigure pretty much anything to work the way you want, you can become actively involved in the development of apps, drivers, the kernel, etc.
OSX is closed. Darwin is only a little bit open. You can see the source but there are a lot of licensing restrictions imposed on what you can actually do with it.
Since Linux works very well on my Mac hardware and doesn't impose the limitations of OSX it's what I prefer to run most of the time, though my system is dual boot. Best of both worlds really.
Now wash your hands.
This is hardly news. Linux is running on cell phones, VCRs, microwave ovens, and vacuum cleaners these days...
Give me something really geeky, like someone hacked their cat to run linux, or the mars rover, or a dill pickle or something...
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