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Being a particularly non-mac oriontated person, I wouldn't know exactly. But I get the impression from that linux, that the mac version of the os, will run on the older machines.
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<A HREF="http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/supported.shtml">http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/hardware/supported.shtml</A>
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There is that other mac in the corner, which looks alot like the one down the bottom of that page (once again I am showing my nonmacciness)
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--proXy
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On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 20:56, Grahame Bowland wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 07:33:04PM +0800, proXy wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> I know that alot of people dislike the idea of whacking linux on things,</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> but I thought maybe we could port Yellow Dog Linux (or something</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> similar) to one of the pizza box macs in the corridor.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/products/ydl.shtml</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> if someone (not me but i would certainly help) wanted to, it could be</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> done the hard way (can you compile a kernel on such a processor)</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> (perhaps we could try freeBSD ;)</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> I think this would be something interesting and different to have,</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> also something to have a bit of a play with.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Dude, I think you're going to need a MMU on those processors. You </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>won't have protected memory and Linux is a protected memory operating </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>system.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>-- </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>"At a risk of being called sexist, ageist and French, if you put multimedia, </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>a leather skirt and lipstick on a grandmother and take her to a nightclub, </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>she's still not going to get lucky." - JLG on Windows</FONT></FONT></I>
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