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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. Screw G5 or X86.... by Creepy+Crawler · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd like to see somebody come up with a dual-cpu monstrosity using hyperconnect or such, and link a G5 and an X86 together.

    Even slicker is to use the old neXt packed binaries and compile for both X86 AND G5. I figure Jobs came up with it, why not use it ;-)

    And why do this? Best of both worlds. There's a lot of software that is only MS NT X86 binary structure.. this beast could run it.

    oh, and this beast could bootstrap all those X86-only pci cards that you cant use in the Mac.

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