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A Power Users Look at Linux on the Mac

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the fun-hardware-to-smack dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Even though most Linux users have treated Linux as an operating system for their x86 white boxes, Linux runs equally well on PowerPC machines. This article looks at Linux on the PowerPC and the appealing range of PPC machines produced by Apple, where the option of using Linux is of great value to many users."

6 of 598 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What is wrong by mocm · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    Having a Powerbook with OSX and Linux installed, I still cannot understand why people prefer OSX. Having only one Desktop and no X11 is really annoying. So I installed X11 and lots of other software that is standard for Linux, but still why bother when you can run Linux and, in case you really need OSX, MOL.

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  2. Re:Yes by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Moron... please read the links you post. YellowDog linux is AWSOME... but you sill have to BUY OSX.

  3. Duh. by Mr_Icon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Let's see: it's free, it's uniform across platforms, I'm not locked into proprietary hardware, and I don't have to support litigious bastards called Apple by constantly paying for upgrades and bugfixes.

    (Slashdot has a bit of a blind eye when it comes to the last part, I fully realize.)

    icon@fleur:[~]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep motherboard
    motherboard : PowerBook3,2 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
    icon@fleur:[~]$ uname -a
    Linux fleur.hogwarts.jk 2.4.22-2d #2 Mon Oct 20 12:03:14 EDT 2003 ppc ppc ppc GNU/Linux

    I used to have an OS X partition, but I deleted it during the last reinstall since I haven't used it in over a year.

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  4. Re:OK, I agree to some extend, BUT... by vsync64 · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb # run once a day or so
    What, OS X doesn't have that in the stock crontab? What a heap of trash...
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  5. Re:Why use Linux at all when there's Mac OS X? by BadDreamer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So, to counter the argument that Linux is free (as in speech), you used the argument that OS X is "essentially free" (as in cost), and then you go on about how good you are at languages and how *your* point had nothing at all to do with free (as in speech) to begin with?

    And yeah, I reread all the comments.

    And then you call someone calling your bullshit "arrogant" ...

  6. Re:What is wrong by Ilgaz · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What kind of a troll you are and how you managed to get +5 insightful is beyond my understanding.

    Oh wait! This is slashdot! ;)