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Name: Francisco
Date: October 5, 2002 at 13:17:16 Pacific
OS: XP/RH 8.0
CPU/Ram: AMD/512
Comment:

The last Apple OS can run Unix appplications...so my question is, Is there a linux distro that can be installed on a Mac machine?



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Name: Lawrence
Date: October 5, 2002 at 13:20:01 Pacific
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I think PPC is a version of Linux for Mac
machine. To see which distro has a version
for Mac, check out www.linuxiso.org...

Lawrence


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Response Number 2
Name: TS
Date: October 5, 2002 at 17:12:40 Pacific
Reply:

Search Google for 'Virtual PC'

It's an emulator, comes in Windows and Mac versions. It can emulate most OSes.


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Response Number 3
Name: ducu
Date: October 5, 2002 at 19:41:48 Pacific
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Red Hat has a distribution for mac, Mandrake too. Normally, any version of linux should work on a mac. You can buy it because it is CHEAP.


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Response Number 4
Name: William R. Abernathy
Date: October 6, 2002 at 14:05:44 Pacific
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check www.yellowdoglinux.com which I am currently running on a old PowerComputing PowerTower 225 that I bought for $100.00 with printer and scanner and ViewSonic 17GA Monitor. Installs easy works great!

Bill a.


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Response Number 5
Name: Francisco
Date: October 6, 2002 at 15:34:30 Pacific
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Thanks for your answers...I am new to linux, so I didn't know about PPC. I have a Power PC at the office...6 GB HDD, 300 MHZ....and since we don't have much use for it, I am thinking to get it running linux or in case we wanna keep it like apple OS system install OS X jaguar.


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