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Terra Soft Offers Linux-booting iPods, FW Drives

Posted by timothy on from the no-no-booting-your-mac dept.

Kai Staats of Terra Soft writes "We are pleased to now offer support for bootable iPods and FireWire drives, enabling a highly portable Linux on PowerPC environment." Note that this is about booting a Macintosh into Linux, not running Linux on the iPod.

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  1. Ah, but... by PornMaster · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is this how Linus boots his Mac?

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    1. Re:Ah, but... by winkydink · · Score: 5, Funny

      No, that would be a separate article. Anything Linus does is a separate article.

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  2. Woah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Terra Soft Solutions(R), Inc., the leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions"

    Woah! Leading developer of integrated PowerPC Linux solutions. That's impressive! I wonder if there is a second place?

  3. Re:My kid's lemonade stand needs more traffic by DrLZRDMN · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it runs Linux.

  4. When Will the "Make it Boot Linux" Madness Stop? by windowpain · · Score: 4, Funny

    I left a ham sandwich on my desk today and forgot about it. When I got back three geeks were working to make it boot Linux.

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