Re: [Siglinux] linux on ppc

2004-03-06 Thread Joe Corneli
I see. Well, that Linux is not binary compatible with Darwin changes things. I was also thinking about (eventually) working on helping port the GNU Hurd to "new world" ppc architecture. Is this a project that any of you would be interested in at some point? By the way, yesterday I was on

Re: [Siglinux] linux on ppc

2004-03-06 Thread Ryan Amos
Well, there's no sense reinventing the wheel :) Fink is just an OS X port of apt-get (the debian package manager) and debian has a PowerPC distribution (http://www.debian.org/). You're going to have to format a new partition if you want to install Linux, as OS X uses HFS+ and Linux does not (it

[Siglinux] linux on ppc

2004-03-06 Thread Joe Corneli
Here's a question: have any of you installed linux on a recent Mac? And a somewhat deeper question: anyone interested in helping me port Fink to Linux and/or producing a linux distribution that could be installed through the Fink package manager, and that would, at the user's option, remove Mac