[P1] New iBook Owner / iBook Hard drive partition

[Jeremy Morgan]

Right, OSX is not Linux, it might look like it in the terminal, I've 
banged my head against the desk many times treating osx like my linux 
servers.  I'm a Linux administrator, I  work with both RedHat and 
Gentoo.

One nice way, though it costs money, is to install Virtual PC and 
RedHat 8.0.  You don't have to screw around with partitioning.  I've 
done it on my G4 Quicksilver and it ran fine (733 G4 tower vs 600 G3 
notebook?).  If you are just playing around with linux it should work 
fine.  Just don't set it up to boot into x windows, a real linux 
experience is on the command line.

Another alternative (cheap cheap) is to use a telnet/ssh service, that 
takes no diskspace or cpu.  linux installs nicely on 200mhz and faster 
pc's, most of which you can get free these days, or next to nothing.

--Jeremy Morgan


On Feb 11, 2004, at 9:48 PM, Tyler Krehbiel wrote:

> A friend of mine is telling me that i shouldent put linux on my iBook, 
> he is
> saying that it will "kill your battery and cause head slaps" Is there 
> any
> truth to this?
>
> ~Tyler
>
>>
>> Hey Tyler,
>>
>> There are (at least) three Linux distros that run on PowerPC (mac)
>> hardware. Yellow Dog Linux, Debian Linux and Gentoo linux (they're in
>> approximate order of ease of use). Linux runs on any mac processor
>> greater than a G3, and almost certainly has lower system requirements
>> than Panther.
>>
>> If you're a bit of a newbie, I suggest you checkout Yellow Dog Linux.
>> It's based on Redhat, and although I haven't seen/used YDL I've been a
>> Redhat user for several years and consider it very good.
>>
>> If you look on the YDL website (www.yellowdoglinux.com/) you'll find
>> step-by-step instructions about partitioning, etc.
>>
>> To clear up a mistruth:
>> MacOSX is NOT linux, (not even technically  ;-), it's *based* on 
>> FreeBSD
>> which is *similar* to linux (both FreeBSD and Linux are Unix clones).
>> This might seem like splitting hairs, but OSX _could_not_ have been
>> built on Linux like it was built on FreeBSD because of differences in
>> licensing (see www.gnu.org).
>>
>> I've only just got my ibook (3 days  8-), so I can't tell you how
>> intercompatible it is with Linux, but so far I'm very impressed with 
>> it.
>> If you want a more Linux-like experience, make sure you install the
>> developer tools that come with it (compiler, libraries, etc).
>>
>> My impression, though, is that for some things Linux is better than
>> Panther (which is better than Linux in many), although this will be 
>> less
>> obvious if you use YDL.
>> The way it is better is that it is easier to do low level 
>> configuration
>> in Linux (I think - this could be wrong), but YDL (if like Redhat) 
>> will
>> have made this less easy than other distros like Debian.
>>
>> My advice would be to buy a cheap PC (perhaps a Pentium2) *gasp*, and
>> install Linux on there. Linux runs better on x86 (pc) hardware anyway,
>> because that's where most the work is done.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> -Angus
>
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