Linux on an iMac?

[kory white]

Yellow Dog Rocks!..I have it on an old Poiwer PC 78500 as well as an 
iMac...runs like a dream...anything you want to know...ask


kory


On Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at 09:21 PM, Tony Fardella wrote:

> One thing you can do is check out Yellow Dog Linux as it should run 
> nicely
> on an iMac. I took a look at it when I was at MacWorld and it looks 
> pretty
> nice.
>
> Another thing you might want to do is get in touch with the people at 
> Sonoma
> State. They were at an NBLUG meeting last year where they showed how 
> they
> boot Macs (running OS9)and PC's (running Linux) over the network in the
> library serving the OS's from a Linux box. This might be just what you 
> need.
>
> Good luck!
>
> -----------------
>  Tony Fardella
>  tonyf at sonic.net
> -----------------
>
> On 3/6/2002 5:57 PM, "Lincoln Peters" <lincoln_peters at hotmail.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> I should clarify what I mean by a "less drastic" solution.  I'm 
>> thinking
>> that if I can run Linux on an iMac, I could netboot it off of my new 
>> server,
>> just like I oculd netboot an NT workstation from the server.  Of 
>> course,
>> I'll need a separate installation for PPC-compiled binaries, but 
>> thanks to
>> Tom Rowe, I now have the capacity to do that.
>> I don't intend to erase the hard drives on the iMacs and put Linux on 
>> them.
>> If I did that, I'd be potentially creating a lot more problems than 
>> I'd be
>> solving.
>>
>>> From: "Lincoln Peters" <lincoln_peters at hotmail.com>
>>> Reply-To: <talk at nblug.org>
>>> To: talk at nblug.org
>>> Subject: Linux on an iMac?
>>> Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 17:00:02 -0800
>>>
>>> There are quite a few iMacs at RCHS, and they have a security program
>>> called
>>> On Guard, which makes a feeble attempt at providing UNIX-level 
>>> security on
>>> MacOS (prior to MacOS X, at least).  However, On Guard causes all 
>>> sorts of
>>> performance and stability problems, not to mention that it's a pain 
>>> to get
>>> anything done when it does work.  If I could get a boot CD for a 
>>> Mac, I
>>> could disable On Guard easily, but I hope to find a less drastic 
>>> solution.
>>>
>>> I know that Linux can run on some PowerPC-based systems.  Has anyone 
>>> tried
>>> running Linux on such a system?  Can anyone recommend a particular 
>>> distro
>>> for PPC systems?  Are there any issues that I should know about 
>>> before I
>>> try
>>> it?
>>>
>>> Also, is there anything available that would let me emulate a PPC 
>>> system on
>>> my Athlon computer at home (something similar to VMWare, but for 
>>> virtual
>>> Macs)?
>>>
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