[ale] OT: FC2 on MaxOSX

Stephen Cristol stephen at bee.net
Tue Mar 14 16:09:02 EST 2006


On Mar 14, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Randy Ramsdell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 15:15 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
>> Is there a way I can run an install of FC2 on MacOSX?  This could  
>> be a
>> G4 or could be an Intel.
>
> If your talking hardware, FC2-5 or any other flavor will not run, but
> there are Linux ports (BEOS) that run on MAC hardware. If you are
> talking about software, then yes. Mac OSX has  built in VM that works,
> but seems lagged badly.

I believe the best linux options for PowerPC hardware are:

   Yellow Dog Linux (http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/)

   Ubuntu Linux (http://www.ubuntu.com/)

I've not installed either on PowerPC. YMMV.

S




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