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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. Re:Just hardware, no apple OS. by RevAaron · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wise remark. Like it or not - apple hw, without max os x isn't a mac.

    It's just another linux machine with that horrible X thing on it. :P

    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.

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  2. Re:Just hardware, no apple OS. by lowrydr310 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Is there anything better about running Linux on a PowerPC based system as opposed to an x86 system? Do people really go out and spend big bucks on Apple hardware just to run Linux?

  3. Re:Just hardware, no apple OS. by wealthychef · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It's just another linux machine with that horrible X thing on it. :P

    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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  4. Re:Just hardware, no apple OS. by swimmar132 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Can you get 5+ hours on the Pentium M laptops?

  5. Maybe a highly portable Mac by MBraynard · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.