Gavin Clark wrote: > > on 10/11/00 1:56 PM, Stephen Bosch wrote: > > > > > > > GrAnT GaLbRaiTh wrote: > >> > >> I'm wondering if its possible to burn a CD from an ISO image using a mac > >> burner (it's all I have at work). > > > > Then, when you're done, you can go and install Yellow Dog Linux on the > > Mac, and REALLY confuse those Mac-heads. > > > > Yeeha! I'd love to see Linux running on a PPC machine. Anybody have any > > stories? > > > > -Stephen- > > it's very fast. mostly it is the same as on X86 but there are a few > differences. I figured that it would be fast, given that PPC is RISC... > there are not as many people hacking for PPC so ports are always a little > behind. Most of the larger projects have PPC code included (linux kernel, > apache, etc.) so it's not a big problem but you do feel like a second class > citizen at times. When I go package hunting on www.rpmfind.net it always seems like there are many PPC packages... I've always had the impression that the momentum is growing. It makes me want to try it myself. > There is no LILO. You either get into and tweak something called Open > Firmware or you let the Mac OS boot part way until an extension called bootX > loads that kicks Mac OS out of RAM then loads the linux kernel. Yuck. Sounds messy. What distribution are you running? Open Firmware would be the Mac equivalent of the BIOS, would it not? > The best part was seeing how much more the hardware could do just with some > different code running. I almost laughed myself silly when I saw how fast > netscape was under linux. > > I do suspect however that, save for slower hardware, LinuxPPC's days are > numbered once OSX ships. That doesn't make sense to me -- what happens to all the RS/6000 users who are running Linux? If LinuxPPC vanishes, they won't be able to run an alternative operating system anymore... -Stephen-
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