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Terra Soft Offers Linux-booting iPods, FW Drives

Posted by timothy on Wednesday March 9, 2005 @09:41AM 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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Just hardware, no apple OS. by ClickWir · 2005-03-09 02:14 · Score: 5, Informative

Torvald's response came quickly and succinctly. "My main machine these days is a dual 2GHz G5 (aka PowerPC 970) - it's physically a regular Apple Mac, although it obviously only runs Linux, so I don't think you can call it a Mac any more ;)" he said.