How to run almost any OS on your Mac

"It's not quite as robust as OS X when it comes to certain Mac hardware, but to be fair it's almost impossible for any operating system designed to run on more than a small range of computers to be as stable."

Right. The usual horse manure.

I thought it was quite interesting. And I doubt that any other OS but the Mac could be as stable on hardware specifically chosen to work properly with OSX.

I for one welcome this article. It's rare to hear anything about gnu/linux on ppc pc's even on lxer. It would be nice to read more about other gnu/linux user's on the ppc platform. Plenty of used imac, emac's, etc.. out there just waiting to be revived.

The question still remains, when you finally opt to run Linux on an Intel Mac, why did you spend a boatload of money on a machine that isn't much better than a generic x86 box and then still turn off the Apple magic?

> And I doubt that any other OS but the Mac could be as stable on hardware specifically chosen to work properly with OSX.

That would depend on how well OSX was written, wouldn't it?

I appreciate this article as well, for no other reason than, my grandparents have a G4 Mac-mini running OS 10.3.9, which will only support FF 2.x, and FF is dropping support for FF 2.x. I had thought Ubuntu dropped support for PPC with like 6.10 or something, but it seems that they started it back up or something, and now I know. I can create a liveCD to see if the new Ubuntu will work for them, their printer is a bit finicky with Linux, or at least it has been in the past.

Last time I looked, DebianPPC and Yellowdog did not have a liveCD.

Quoting:Last time I looked, DebianPPC and Yellowdog did not have a liveCD.

And yet almost exactly a year-and-a-half ago, an up-to-date Debian-based liveCD for PowerPC was already directly mentioned in a post submitted by LXer Editor-in-Chief Scott Ruecker.

From 'Finnix: Compact Linux distribution for system administrators' linked to at LXer via http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/108066

Quoting:Finnix is a live CD distribution designed to assist system administrators in such tasks as system recovery and network monitoring. Based on Debian testing and Linux kernel 2.6, Finnix helps with filesystem and partition manipulation as well as with data recovery, installation of other operating systems, and boot record repair. Finnix works on both x86/AMD64 and PowerPC systems. The latest release, version 92.0, fixes the Debian SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) vulnerability that was present in previous releases.

And the latest Finnix release is a full version ahead of 92.0 now, as one can easily see from the Finnix blog at http://blog.finnix.org/2009/08/11/finnix-93-0-released/

Thanks for the link, it has been about 2-2.5 years since I looked at installing a new OS on the system, but we found the OSX disc so I used that. Finnix does look interested, but perhaps not as a desktop OS.