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Installing Fedora Core 4 on the Mac mini

Posted by timothy on from the more-cliches-to-the-rescue dept.

Tammy Fox writes "The Mac mini is all the rave. Discover how to install the soon-to-be-released Fedora Core 4 on this tiny desktop appliance, including new features in Fedora Core 4 to support the new hardware."

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  1. Re:Why? by adam1101 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They're reasonably powerful systems with very low power consumption: the entire system (minus display) usually stays under 20W. Even the Pentium-M consumes much more on the desktop (granted, they're also much faster). The most comparable competition in terms of power consumption are Via Mini-ITX systems, which tend to be much slower.

  2. Re:Why? by commodoresloat · · Score: 5, Funny
    What is PPC hardware like? Does it perform better under load or something?

    Everything is much snappier on PPC.

  3. Re:But...why? by JMZorko · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... because, as cool as OSX is (I actually really like it, and I have a 12" PB 1.5ghz running it, as well as a dual 1.25ghz PM G4 MDD), some things need Linux:

    1. AIO (I don't know about Tiger, but Panther only does AIO on file-based FDs, not FDs based on pipes or sockets -- if you don't believe me, check out the XNU kernel source and see for yourself by grepping for ESPIPE) -- some apps need this ability.

    2. The Linux toolchain is the same on PPC and x86. ld is ld is ld, gcc is gcc is gcc, elf is elf. Plus, Linux works on embedded devices (which is one nice thing about the Mac mini -- it's a cheap PPC embedded development platform) while OSX does not yet.

    Regards,

    John

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    Falling You - beautiful