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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. Happy with my tibook by DavidNWelton · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've been happily running Debian on my Tibook since 1991. About time for a new one...

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  2. Shameless plug by DaHat · · Score: 0, Troll

    So how much do we think /. accepted for this so prominently placed ad?

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  3. So, to sum it up by Rosco+P.+Coltrane · · Score: 0, Troll

    Software company to offer yet another USB memory key bootable Linux distro. Only the bootable key is an expensive Ipod, and the computers you can run Linux on aren't the ubiquitous PC, but much more rare Macs.

    Hmm, I'm sure all 14 potential users are jumping up and down with anticipation. Great market research guys...

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  4. Re:Who in their right mind... by DogDude · · Score: 0, Troll

    OK, so my post got modded a troll. I guess Slashdot never changes... but I'm curious... can a single person give one single good reason to install Linux onto a Mac? I've read every post, and not a single one mentions why somebody would do this.

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  5. Re:Honest journalism by slavemowgli · · Score: 0, Troll

    True, and I'm not suprised to see that it's timothy who posted this. Damn, wasn't this idiot removed as an editor a while ago?

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  6. Re:Maybe a highly portable Mac by XpirateX · · Score: 0, Troll

    Powerbook? iPod? Cheap? Same sentence? I must be dreaming!