Re: [Siglinux] linux on ppc

[Ryan Amos]

Well, there's no sense reinventing the wheel :) Fink is just an OS X 
port of apt-get (the debian package manager) and debian has a PowerPC 
distribution (http://www.debian.org/). You're going to have to format a 
new partition if you want to install Linux, as OS X uses HFS+ and Linux 
does not (it will read HFS+ just fine, but I don't think you can boot 
from it.) Linux is not binary compatible with Darwin, so the same 
program that works under Linux will not work under OS X and vice versa. 
In reality though, there's not a whole lot you can do with Linux that 
you can't do with OS X.

I get the sense what you want to do is just throw a Linux kernel in an 
OS X system and have it work, and unfortunately that's really not 
possible. There are significant differences between OS X and Linux, and 
individual binaries have to take these into consideration. If you want 
to install Linux, you can still do so; Macs make admirable Linux 
machines in fact, but you need to create a separate partition or install 
another hard drive.

-Ryan

Joe Corneli wrote:

Here's a question: have any of you installed linux on a recent Mac?  

And a somewhat deeper question: anyone interested in helping me port
Fink to Linux and/or producing a linux distribution that could be
installed through the Fink package manager, and that would, at the
user's option, remove Mac OS X as it installed itself?
Or is this just a ridiculous idea and I should give up the idea of
an "easy" migration to Linux from Mac OS X?
Or maybe it is easier than I suspect - probably lots of Fink-installed
things should work under Linux no problem, right?
Joe
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