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Brad
Selfish Heathen
 
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Zone of Pain
 
2006-02-20, 02:40

Amit Singh (of KernelThread.com) also just posted about getting Linux running on the Intel Macs...

Test-driving Linux on an Intel-based Macintosh
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I do have strange friends. Take Mark Smith, for example. Mark is essentially a "Windows Internals" guy -- he's OS-agnostic at best. In particular, he is certainly not a "Macintosh" person. However, he recently purchased an Intel-based Macintosh because he felt like running Linux (an operating system that he does not normally use) on it.

Then, there is Benjamin Reed, who is decidedly a Linux guy, although he owns and uses Macintosh computers, albeit with relentless complaints.

Somehow, they think of me (Amit) as a Mac OS X person — this is not true.

So it was this unlikely team that decided to see if we can get Linux to run on an Intel-based Macintosh.

We did succeed, and since Ben is somewhat of a Linux distribution connoisseur, we thought of releasing a prototype distribution for Intel-based Macintoshes. However, as far as "first-to-announce" is concerned, we were beaten to the punch by the Mactel Linux people, who announced their successful attempt yesterday.

Nevertheless, here is our technical description of how we ran Linux on a 17-inch iMac. Moreover, we are releasing a test-drive mini-distribution as an HFS+ bootable disk image. Simply burn it to a CD and boot with the option key pressed.
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