Red Hat, Linux and Intel iMacs

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Red Hat, Linux and Intel iMacs

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday January 25, 2006 @04:20AM from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

segphault writes "Ars Technica examines the implications of Red Hat's recently announced plan to get Linux running on Intel Macs. 'Red Hat representative Gillian Farquhar announced last week that the company plans to add support for Apple's new Intel Macs to its popular distribution. Fedora and several other commonly used Linux distributions support the PowerPC architecture used by Apple in the past, and Red Hat wants to ensure that its software will continue to run on new Apple hardware in the future.'" The real question is will Windows or Linux be first?

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3 sentence summary of that article by digitaldc · 2006-01-25 04:25 · Score: 4, Funny

Red Hat Plans for Linux on Intel Macs
1/25/2006

Red Hat representative Gillian Farquhar announced last week that the company plans to add support for Apple's new Intel Macs to its popular distribution.
Red Hat wants to ensure that its software will continue to run on new Apple hardware in the future.
EFI support is theoretically possible, but is still in development.

And to answer the question, Linux will be first.

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From the article summary... by Anonymous Coward · 2006-01-25 04:27 · Score: 2, Funny

Red Hat representative Gillian Farquhar announced last week that the company plans to add support for Apple's new Intel Macs to its popular distribution.
Run shrek run... King Farquad is putting on his Red Hat!
1. Re:From the article summary... by MintyGreen · 2006-01-25 06:18 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  King Farquad is putting on his Red Hat!
  
  King? I don't think so.
  Magic Mirror: Well, technically, you're not a king.
  Lord Farquaad: Thelonius?
  [Thelonius the Executioner smashes a small looking glass]
  Magic Mirror: [nervous] Er, I mean you're not a king YET...
Re:No, the real question is... by ClippyHater · 2006-01-25 04:31 · Score: 4, Funny

What about my Beloved BeOS?

I believe the correct term for that sentiment is "necrophilia".
Re:Im not sure I understand... by meringuoid · 2006-01-25 04:57 · Score: 4, Funny

why would someone go pay good money for a mac, only to install RadHat?
You're new here, aren't you?
It's Because. We're. Geeks.
Seriously, you've managed to find your way to Slashdot, you must at least have some understanding of the mindset that drives this kind of thing?

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Gimmie, gimmie, gimmie by Jester6641 · 2006-01-25 05:06 · Score: 2, Funny

OK, all I have to say is that I will name my first child after the one who first gives me a MacBook tri-booting (is that even a word/concept?) OS X/Linux/Windows XP Pro. Email me when it's done, and I'll send you my address... Hear that? Right now, someone on Slashdot just lost their social life. While others are surpised that someone here could actually produce a child.

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Nether! by nbritton · 2006-01-25 05:18 · Score: 2, Funny

It'll run NetBSD first :-)

Has anyone tried running Darwin / FreeBSD?

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Re:The real question... by Heembo · 2006-01-25 05:26 · Score: 2, Funny

My commodore 64. But please, if you got a port I'm all ears!

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Re:Im not sure I understand... by swv3752 · 2006-01-25 08:37 · Score: 2, Funny

It's Because. We're. Lazy. Geeks.

Though in reality it is more like why IBM ported Linux to a watch, because it garners advertising and show how versatile Linux is.

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