| Booting Linux on a Mac from an iPod |
May 02, 2006
Think about this scenario for a moment: Using an iPod to boot Linux on a Mac. No, we're not kidding. This is exactly what writer Dave Taylor describes in a new online article at LinuxJournal.com entitled "Yellow Dog Linux Installs Neatly on an iPod."
"Forget bootable USB pendrives," Taylor writes. "The concept's great: What would it be like to have a pocket-size device that I could plug in to just about any Macintosh and by simply rebooting the computer be running a full-blown Linux installation? There are oodles of Linux OSes for Intel architectures, of course, but the Mac, until very recently, has been built around the Motorola architecture, so the number of choices are rather fewer."
One of the few Linux OSes for the PowerPC, Yellow Dog, from Terra Soft Corp., can be used for this purpose, Taylor explains.
"Because Mac OS X already is a UNIX ... why bother with a Mac Linux? The answer is that although Mac OS X is a splendid mating of a UNIX operating system with all the graphical goodness of Apple's user interface design, it's still not Linux. If you're in a Linux environment and want to run KDE or GNOME, you don't have to graft it onto Mac OS X if you can run a Linux designed for the Mac platform instead," Taylor writes.
You can read Taylor's entire article here.
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