[Wolves] Macs, Linux et al

[chris procter]

There are many ppc-linux distros, mandrake, suse,
yellow-dog (which is based on fedora and is produced
by terrasoft who are an official mac reseller), debian
etc etc plus netbsd and openbsd, but not freebsd (odd
that seeing as MacOSX has a large amount of FreeBSD
heritage). You can also run MacOSX (obviously) and
Darwin (the OSX kernel but with the fancy graphics
removed and a standard Xwindows system instead). I
have also heard rumours of an OpenSolaris ppc port but
seeing as OpenSolaris is still only available for any
platform in theory dont hold your breath.

There is an article about running Linux/NetBSD on the
Mac Mini here:-
http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-macmini2/?ca=dgr-lnxw07MacMiniP2
Which implies that audio is a problem.

Windows XP will not run natively but you can get
virtual pc which allows you to run windows within an
emulator (kind of like vmware I think), it has a
reputation of being slow, but usable if you need to. 

chris


--- Katherine Goodwin <kat at codepoets.co.uk> wrote:
> Kevanf1 wrote :
> > I know that you can run Linux on a Mac using the
> Yellow Dog distro. 
> > But, can you run FreeBSD?  What about running XP
> on a Mac? Is it
> > possible?  Just curious as I don't own one but I'm
> plain interested
> > and being as one or two people on here have Mac's
> :-)))
> I can't give a technical answer on this..
> You can run lots of other varieties of Linux on Macs
> - I run Ubuntu for PPC on my ibook
> I don't think you can install Windows on them, but I
> believe there are windows emulators
> you can get...
> 
> Not a very useful answer I suspect...
> 
> Kat
> 
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