“However, it’s Linux that lives at the center of most of the open source community, and it’s Linux that includes a complete office suite, a top-notch Web browser, a powerful image and graphics editor, dozens of professional applications, and a solid and time-tested development environment for free, easily downloaded or purchased for just a few dollars.” Gremlins? What is this guy talking about? “This meant that to get started I needed to partition the drive, to take the 58GB partition (the maximum available space on a 60GB drive: don’t ask where the other 2GB go, they’re just eaten by the same gremlins that cause your 17″ monitor to actually only measure 15.5″ diagonally) and shrink it down to make space for two more operating systems and all of their additional files.” That doesn’t even include Ubuntu, CRUX, or Fedora. But things have come a long way a quick look at lists 9 alternative operating systems (or distros) for the ppc architecture. “If you’re looking for Intel-based versions of Linux, there are dozens and dozens, but the PowerPC chip cuts those options down quite a bit.” He could have at least talked about Mac On Linux (MOL) project. “Unlike Microsoft’s VirtualPC application, these operating systems can’t be installed within Mac OS X, but rather have to be installed adjacent to or instead of Mac OS X.” You’re KIDDING? I was unaware of this going on – (Please note the sarcasm). “Imagine, the entire source code for your operating system and all major applications.” You use BootX to escape the mac kernel (because, the OldWorld Macs only allow you to boot to the native operating system – probably OS9)…Ĭheck it out here, for instructions with ydl. I’ve done this with ydl 3.0.1, and mdk 9.1. But, it is quite possible to insall linux on an OldWorld Mac. Well, I will agree with one part of your statement: the guy doesn’t know much. …yet he doesn’t know that you need a NewWorld boot partition and a swap partition to install Linux on a mac? General wisdom (and my experience) suggest that every release of OS X runs better than the last on older hardware – 10.0 was terrible on anything shy of a G4, while 10.3 is plenty responsive on a couple of old “Pismo” Powerbook G3s we have floating around the office.Īnd I won’t even bother asking why he’s comparing emulators to operating systems. Apparently he’s never tried to upgrade to Jaguar or Panther on a low end Mac. He suggests that the readers might want to use Linux on their Macs because they aren’t powerful enough to handle the upgrade to Jaguar or Panther.
(He also implied that you need Linux for OO.o – while not technically true, I am going to let him go on this because running OO.o on OS X takes patience, to say the least.) I can only assume he didn’t try, considering both projects offer very nice binaries on their websites.
A few notes: The author never named names, but did suggest that you have to use Linux if you want to use Firefox as your web browser and the GIMP for image editing.
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