[wplug] linux on mac?

mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu
Mon Sep 3 23:36:45 EDT 2001


On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:04:29PM -0400, Doug Green wrote:
> Hi all-
> 
> Recently my boss offered to "trade" computers because he needs a windows
> 98 machine in the office. The deal would be that I'll inherit a 300MHz
> Mac G3 (the blue one) for a Hewlett Packard PII 450. Not a bad trade if
> you ask me... but I was wondering: does anyone have any experience running
> linux on a mac? How about OSX? I mostly use my laptop, so I really
http://www.linuxppc.org
and http://old.linuxppc.org/distributions/

> don't care what desktop is sitting in my home, but before I give
> away my PC, I'd like to collect some advice from any mac people... can I
> run linux on this thing and/or is OSX all it's cracked up to be (ie: can
> I compile packages native to linux or unix on it)?
> 
> Thanks
> Doug
> 
> 
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