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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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    Working toward a usable PDA environment in the spirit of Newton OS: Dynapad
  2. Re:Just hardware, no apple OS. by swimmar132 · · Score: 5, Interesting

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