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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. Will there be another posting by winkydink · · Score: -1, Troll
    when they announce support for USB drives?

    Sheesh.

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  5. Who in their right mind... by DogDude · · Score: -1, Troll

    Who in their right mind would run a generic Linux instead of OS X? I thought that the whole point of OS X was to be a usable form of Linux/BSD?

    I personally, can't wait. This is the worst of both worlds! The usability (lack thereof) of Linux, and the astronomical pricing of Apple. Jesus, you'd have to be either 1. an idiot or 2. a masochist to buy a Mac and install Linux on it. This might be fun for a hobbyist with lots and lots of extra time and money, but that's all Linux on a Mac will ever be: an obscure hobby.

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    1. 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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  6. Re:Uh, yeah, sure... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No one cares...

  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. Re:Maybe a highly portable Mac by XpirateX · · Score: 0, Troll

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