Why would people want to get VPC w/ Red Hat? I can think of a few reasons...
1) Red Hat is not available for Macs at all. Yes you can get LinuxPPC, but Red Hat is pretty much the "corporate" distro. You know, the one your PHB has heard of...
2) To install LinuxPPC you need to repartition the hard drive. For VPC, just create a new HD image file, and you can format it till the sun don't shine, while your files stay safe. Great for people who "just wanna have a look at that linux thing."
And Connectix includes customized drivers for video and NIC (at least for VPC w/ Windows) which make the simulated PC box run at reasonable speed. What Connectix should do now is to make whatever drivers they make for VPC w/ RH available for other VPC owners so we can go install RH ourselves.
Connectix makes Virtual PC and Virtual Game Station for Mac. The announcement yesterday is about Virtual PC Linux version. Instead of your simulated PC booting into Windoze, now they sell a package that let your Mac run a simulated PC running Red Hat. But it would be real sweet if they port VGS to linux. Then again, doesn't the PS2 TOOL SDK run linux? Makes me wonder if the PS2's PSX backward compatibility is just an emulator running on linux...
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1) Red Hat is not available for Macs at all. Yes you can get LinuxPPC, but Red Hat is pretty much the "corporate" distro. You know, the one your PHB has heard of...
2) To install LinuxPPC you need to repartition the hard drive. For VPC, just create a new HD image file, and you can format it till the sun don't shine, while your files stay safe. Great for people who "just wanna have a look at that linux thing."
And Connectix includes customized drivers for video and NIC (at least for VPC w/ Windows) which make the simulated PC box run at reasonable speed. What Connectix should do now is to make whatever drivers they make for VPC w/ RH available for other VPC owners so we can go install RH ourselves.
Connectix makes Virtual PC and Virtual Game Station for Mac. The announcement yesterday is about Virtual PC Linux version. Instead of your simulated PC booting into Windoze, now they sell a package that let your Mac run a simulated PC running Red Hat. But it would be real sweet if they port VGS to linux. Then again, doesn't the PS2 TOOL SDK run linux? Makes me wonder if the PS2's PSX backward compatibility is just an emulator running on linux...