On Tuesday 03 June 2003 11:24 am, Ben Barrett wrote: : Well, if I had a PPC machine I would. It looks like someone at OSU is : behind this: : http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/releases/ppc/livecd/1.4_rc7/ : http://www.gentoo.org/images/shots/ppc-livecd/snapshot1.jpg : and obligatory source of continued bbbanter: : http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/06/03/1625222&mode=thread&tid=1 :06&tid=185 : : So... OS X users out there: what advantage would you see to running : pure OS X instead of the very-efficient OS X in-a-window via Mac on : Linux as shown in the screenshot linked above? It strikes me that it : would be annoying to not have the dock on the bottom of the screen; : maybe the OS X window session can be fullscreened on one of the virtual : desktops?? Nice work! : : regards, : : BB : : PS - I guess all the redhat support is too busy with their loyal : corporate backers to help on the mailing list... no really, I do think : it is good to try many distro's. I haven't tried enough, myself. : Is anyone booting four or more OSes on one machine?
Not any more, but ive had 6 on one hard disk. to simplify things I limit myself to 3 distro's to keep from having to use exteneded partitons (this is where things can get really messy). Jamie : : : On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 18:16:07 -0700 : : Bob Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : | BAGGAB wrote: : | > Maybe I should be considering another disrto. I've tried Mandrake : | > and koppix, but I hear a lot of good buzz about Gentoo. : | : | I would say that Gentoo is for experts only at this point. (Maybe for : | a long time.) Only install Gentoo if you understand another distro or : | two inside and out. I second Kent's suggestion about starting from : | KNOPPIX and doing a hard disk install if you like it. (But I'm : | already known as a KNOPPIX zealot, so pay me no mind.) : | : | By the way, Brian, you asked for a second opinion, so I also say : | there's nothing wrong with running ppp (what kppp uses) as root. It : | has to be that way. Other distributions run it as root too, whether : | or not they make you type your root password. : | : | -- : | Bob Miller K<bob> : | kbobsoft software consulting : | http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] : | _______________________________________________ : | EuG-LUG mailing list : | [EMAIL PROTECTED] : | http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug : : _______________________________________________ : EuG-LUG mailing list : [EMAIL PROTECTED] : http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
