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New Patches Let iMac G5 Boot Linux

Posted by timothy on from the limited-functionality dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Apple enthusiasts and Linux geeks allied and the result is the announcement of a set of patches (still in test stage) that allows iMac G5 owners to (at least) boot Linux on their toys."

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  1. Redundant… by david-bo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It is redundant to argue either:

    1. There is no need for linux when you have Mac OS X. With its Unix-underpinnings yoiu can do basically everything on Mac OS X that you can use linux for.

    2. Some people like Apple hardware (even though it might be more expensive compared to x86) but for (e.g.) political reasons prefer to use linux.

    Read my lips. This is redundant. These arguments has been posted thousands of times at Slahsdot's Apple-section.

    Please moderators. Take this into consideration when you moderate. I am tired of people telling the world that 'I can use Photoshop and Word on the same OS/computer as I write shell scripts and run Apache' and I am even more tired of when these postings are moderated insightful.

    They are no more insightful than someone explaining that if you spend the same money you would get a faster computer today compared with a year ago.

    1. Re:Redundant… by javax · · Score: 5, Insightful

      what software are you talking about? Please check DarwinPorts, Fink and GNU-Darwin to see that actually most GNU-style software runs on OS-X just fine.
      Only thing I see at first glance, that OS-X is not conforming to the FHS is, that it mounts external media in /Volumes instead of /media ...