Linux has been succesfully booted on the Intel Imac !
Mactel-Linux Homepage
The site is a little low on specifics but there is a screenshot of Linux booting on the iMac.
Hopefully this means we will be able to run Windows in vmware or apps with wine.
Additionally, they mentioned they booted off an external drive which would mean you wouldn't even have to go through the hassle of setting up dual partitions, or messing with EFI.
I saw this on digg and it looks like the site got hit about 3000 times in the last ten minutes so here is the relevant text from that page (like I said, not too many specifics, instructions are supposed to be posted on the weekend).
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Using elilo and a modified Linux kernel, we can boot from a USB hard disk on the 17" iMac Core Duo. We are using the hacked vesafb driver to inherit the bootloader's framebuffer, keyboard and a USB network card work. Gentoo runs and can compile the Linux kernel with a compiler that runs on linux, which was compiled in linux.
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