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Terra Soft Offers Linux-booting iPods, FW Drives
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.
You can make use of WINE in conjunction with QEMU to achieve execution of x86 Windows binaries on a PPC.
Wise remark. Like it or not - apple hw, without max os x isn't a mac.
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It's just another linux machine with that horrible X thing on it.
Like it or not, but that isn't the case.
Recently, I've been considering buying a new laptop. I last had an iBook G3/500, recently bequethed to my girlfriend, with me using a PDA/handheld as my main computer for the last year or so. So, thinking about getting another full laptop, I've been shopping around. But since I've had my fill of OS X, I was looking at PCs too, since I'd probably be fine on a PC running Windows or Linux. But I keep coming back to the Macs. With the quality of hardware, the size/weight factor it's hard to find a notebook of comparable price, one that isn't a big piece of junk.
Saying that a Mac without OS X isn't a Mac just isn't true. There's more to a Mac than software. Most folks who think so have never used a Mac, not for any long period of time. Similarily, a PC running OS X isn't a Mac. Maybe an x86 machine produced by Apple could make it as one, though.
Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
Mind if I call bullshit?
Troll-bait aside, as a Mac user running OS X at work and at home, I use X11 all the time. The only problem with OS X's windowing system, Aqua, is that it does not support remote windows. With "that horrible X thing," I can and routinely do open graphical windows spawned by applications on other machines running totally different operating systems. It is the only technology out there that does that that I have ever heard of. Even between macs, try opening iTunes on your home machine from your work machine. X11 is a useful application, not horrible at all.
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Can you get 5+ hours on the Pentium M laptops?
On my IBM ThinkPad T40, I've gotten around 6 hours on a single battery, playing DVDs. I've had only 1 Apple Powerbook, a G3 iBook with 14" screen. It could play DVDs around the same duration. As far as using the computer for development, compiling, coding, whatever else, just general use stuff, the iBook was far superior in battery life. The only thing that made the T40 superior is that I have 3 batteries for it, all paid for by my employer of course.
Setting aside the "because I can" and "because it's Linux" arguments, what is the benefit of running YDL instead of OS X on one's Mac?
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My flatmates powerbook blew out the harddrive. In order to do it on the cheap and still make the machine useful, he is running OSX from his Ipod.
Note that this is about booting a Macintosh into Linux, not running Linux on the iPod. If you want to run Linux on your iPod, check out iPodLinux.org.
Again, so what? A G5 probably won't boot a five year old Linux distribution either. My new i386 laptop probably wouldn't boot a three-year-old copy of either windows or linux, because of its crazy hardware.
My point is that the mere fact that a system started out on platform X says nothing about how well or poorly it will now support platform Y.
Windows NT originally started out on an intel risc machine (i860). Sun started on m68k and is now on ultrasparc. HP-UX started on PA-RISC and is now primarily on ia64. PalmOS started on motorola m68881(?) and is now on ARM. Staying on the same set of processors over ten years is the exception.
Despite the fact that this is Slashdot, Linux is also not the end all of OS's.