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On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Kyle Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A friend of mine has PCLinuxOS on his Win/Tel machine. His 3D > graphics are the best I've seen for Linux. I'm just wondering if any > of you have used PCLinuxOS? > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Robert Menes > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:17 AM, Matt Wenham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> 2008/9/23 KP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>>> All the talk about Windows' on Mac, has brought me to this question. >>>> Can a person run Linux on an Intel Mac? >>> >> >> Absolutely! Debian, Yellow Dog, Gentoo, and Ubuntu all have PowerPC >> versions of their distros, and Intel Macs will happily accept any x86 >> distro of Linux you can get. A friend of mine runs Debian on an iBook G4 >> and has most of the hardware working (save for the wireless which required >> a driver module). >> >> Note that Ubuntu no longer ships an official PPC version of their >> distro, so you'll >> have to turn to a community sponsored version of Ubuntu for PPC. >> >> It's a matter of trying out a distro and seeing which one works for you, but >> for >> beginners, I would recommend starting on Ubuntu (think of it as Linux 101), >> and >> working up from there. >> >> --Rob >> -- >> Nobody's ever lost in life...they're merely taking the scenic route. >> ============================== >> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. >> See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html >> ============================== >> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- >> Version: 3.1.2 >> GCS/S/M/MU d- s+: a29 C++(+++) UL++++>$ P++ L+++ E+ W+ N+ o+ K++ w--- O- >> M !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP(+) t+ 5++ X++ R tv b+++ DI+++ D++(---) G++ e+ h- >> r++ y+ >> ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ >> >> >> >> > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
