[Duo2400] Re: We can close this list now! ;-)

[Larry Friedman]

Think of it this way, my old iBook could run Linux, but not System 7. 
All Apple is doing is excluding an older version of its OS, not other 
OSes.

~ Larry


On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 07:56  PM, mac at ozymandias.unm.edu 
wrote:

> "Marcelus G. Zalotti" <magiozal at bol.com.br> writes:
>
>> I wonder if the future Macs will be able to just run alternative 
>> operating
>> systems to Mac OS X, like Linux or BSD...
>
> Almost certainly- especially if you consider Darwin to be a BSD!
>
> MacOnLinux will probably support running OS 7.5 to 9.2 (and,
> apparently, OS X now) on the new hardware, too.
>
> --
> Dana
> mac at ozymandias.unm.edu
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