[SATLUG] Linux on a iBook

[Zeb Fletcher]

Jesse Gonzalez wrote:

>Is there any particular reason you want to run linux on your iBook? I
>assume your running Panther, but Tiger is coming out soon, and from
>the ADC Tech Talks I went to late last year, the new Tiger and XCode
>features sound very promising. But, due to an NDA I cannot discuss
>them.
>
>If it's software you want, fink works great. Gentoo (portage) has been
>ported to OS X as well, but last time I checked it was not production
>ready.
>
>~jesse
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>On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 18:31:03 -0600, Zeb Fletcher <zeb.fletcher at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>Yeah, I knew about that one. I really want to get away from Microsoft
>>altogether on my laptop hence one of the reasons I bought an iBook, no
>>way can I get frustrated with Linux and go back to Windows with the
>>iBook. It's hard for me to kick MS when it's required for so many
>>different aspects of my life, school and work. I think I might just
>>wait until the end of this semester and format, repartition and get it
>>working on linux.
>>
>>Thanks
>>Zeb
>>
>>On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:24:53 -0600, Jesse Gonzalez
>><jesse.gonzalez.jr at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Microsoft has Virtual PC for the Mac, which is similar to VMWare
>>>(except for emulating the hardware).
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>>>On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 16:16:51 -0600, Zeb Fletcher <zeb.fletcher at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>I'm curious is there anything that will let me run linux on a iBook
>>>>inside of OS X. I have seen the opposite where I can have OS X running
>>>>in Linux. The previous owner of the iBook had yellow dog on here and
>>>>told me he couldn't get the modem or the ethernet to work and since I
>>>>don't currently have an airport card for it I was wondering if there
>>>>was another possible solution.
>>>> I really don't want to repartition if I can help it, but might have
>>>>to go that route.
>>>>
>>>>Zeb
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There is no real reasons other than I know Linux better than OS X. I'm 
thinking that my best bet is just to go with a linux distro and then run 
OS X through Mac on Linux like Jermey suggested.  I will just have to 
wait though until I have more time devoted to the task.

Zeb