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.
It made things a lot easier as FreeBSD, Debian, and Mandrake created ports of their OS. mklinux was a pain when I used it on my 6100 and so many people flamed me it wasn't really Linux because it relied on a Mach kernel on the MacOS side and it needed something like BootX. I got it running but all I did was play Tetris. :-P It was supposed to become my Apache server at home.
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.
okay...
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.
Yeah... I had to type it out quick as I was on my way to church.
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