On Sep 22, 2008, at 11:29 PM, KP wrote:

>
> All the talk about Windows' on Mac, has brought me to this question.
> Can a person run Linux on an Intel Mac?

Sure. Ubuntu boots right up, iirc, and will install.

You can run linux on just about any Mac, certainly any modern Mac. Old  
World machines start to get iffy with various bits of hardware  
support, but I'm pretty sure you can still run freebsd on a SE-30.

The main question is ....why would you WANT to? Virtually any Linux  
app you want can be run in OS X, if it's not been ported directly.

See: MacPorts <http://www.macports.org/> and fink <http://www.finkproject.org/ 
 >

if you want to 'learn linux' go get VM software like VirtualBox 
<http://www.virtualbox.org/ 
 > and install any distro you want.

-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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