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Linux beats Windows to Intel iMac

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the because-you-can dept.

Ctrl+Alt+De1337 writes "The Mactel-Linux folks have now successfully booted Linux on a 17" Core Duo iMac. They used the elilo bootloader, a modified kernel, and a hacked vesafb to boot from a USB drive. No GUI pictures for now, just white text on a black background. The distro of choice was Gentoo, and instructions and patches are promised this weekend."

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  1. Who says they did it first? by |Cozmo| · · Score: 1, Troll

    Microsoft doesn't run around posting news stories every time they get something to boot. They also don't release things they just hacked together after staying up all night drinking mountain dew to make the front page of /. Chances are MS has had prototypes of these systems in their labs being worked on before the public even knew there was an Intel Mac. Getting the kernel to boot, kinda, is nowhere near the same as releasing a version of windows that runs on a particular platform.

    1. Re:Who says they did it first? by vertinox · · Score: 1, Troll

      Microsoft doesn't run around posting news stories every time they get something to boot.

      Well that is mostly because every time they do get something to boot, the box gets infected in 90 seconds with an internet worm virus. ;)

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  2. Re:FUD ALERT by mdman · · Score: 1, Troll

    You gotta be kidding me? Mac hardware is substantually more expensive.. Software as well.