All hardware can have problems but I've experienced more problems with PC
systems, particular PC laptops (e.g. a Gateway brick) and PC workstations
(a highly configured Pentium research machine where my disk died/fried?).
On Monday, February 2, 2004, at 04:20 AM, markemmanuel wrote:
Isn't the main reason for new Apple hardware to run the latest BSD stuff (sans FreeBSD), Linux, Windows (via VirtualPC), and other stuff due to Apple's acceptance of Openfirmware while Windows based manufacturers still rely on BIOS?
The advent of Open firmware may have made it easier but Linux (and BSD and
possibly even Minix) have been available on the Mac platform many model aeons ago.
see e.g.
http://www.maconlinux.org/
http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/
Now I've only played with YellowDog personally but spent much happy time with LinuxPPC
as a dual boot on my Pismo with OS8/9 until a more mature OS X (10.1) came out.
I'm happier not to have to dual boot and also not deal with the cross-partition format
incompatibilies.
Your link failed to include links to Debian, Mandrake, and Yellow dog. They all make Linux for Macs and work on in a very dilligently
The link ( http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/vpc/)
was just an (rather tongue in cheek) aside. 8-)
A site I came across where some dude chose to stuff as many OSes as he could
on his PowerBook (mostly using VPC) and it wasn't the main flow of my
response to the erroneous assertion that Macs have been getting less reliable.
Your sentence appears to fade off here .... hmmm ... I already referred to Linux
in my original post. One flavour is much like another (all Linux is like icecream!)
Actually there are (were) many more distributions e.g. LinuxPPC, Suse, MKLinux, HA Linux.
See http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html or http://www.distrowatch.com/
for a current list.
Regards, Dingo
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