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From: zwsdotcom on 7 Apr 2006 10:16 Is it possible to use Boot Camp to dual-boot Linux and OSX? Win XP boot is not very useful to me. Being able to boot to Linux would be helpful, however. (How much do we all want to bet that within five years MacOS X is in the same place as BeOS?)
From: Ilgaz Ocal <ilgaz_ocal@yahoo.com on 7 Apr 2006 10:59 On 2006-04-07 17:16:07 +0300, zwsdotcom(a)gmail.com said: > Is it possible to use Boot Camp to dual-boot Linux and OSX? Win XP boot > is not very useful to me. Being able to boot to Linux would be helpful, > however. > > (How much do we all want to bet that within five years MacOS X is in > the same place as BeOS?) What about "abusing" the software? It creates a NTFS partition yes? So, format the NTFS with ext3 or reiser, install linux and system still should think it is "windows"? I am just therotically experimenting here, you are MAD if you try these without backing up! About the BeOS? Years or months? :) Ilgaz
From: BreadWithSpam on 7 Apr 2006 11:16 zwsdotcom(a)gmail.com writes: > Is it possible to use Boot Camp to dual-boot Linux and OSX? Win XP boot > is not very useful to me. Being able to boot to Linux would be helpful, > however. Folks can already put Linux on PowerPC Macs. Good question about the Intel Macs, though. I'm not sure BootCamp will be necessary. Redhat, I think, has made a commitment to bringing Fedora to Intel Macs. What I'd really like would be a layer which allowed me to link to Intel Linux shared libs easily. > (How much do we all want to bet that within five years MacOS X is in > the same place as BeOS?) I wouldn't make that bet. What was the installed base of BeOS? Did anyone ever set up a BeOS machine for their mom to use (ie. was it ever stable and user-friendly - and *useful* enough for a novice home user)? -- Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed. No HTML in E-Mail! -- http://www.expita.com/nomime.html Are you posting responses that are easy for others to follow? http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting
From: zwsdotcom on 7 Apr 2006 11:17 Ilgaz Ocal wrote: > What about "abusing" the software? It creates a NTFS partition yes? No idea, I am still sitting on the fence about buying an Intel Mac. > I am just therotically experimenting here, you are MAD if you try these > without backing up! I would only try this on a machine with no interesting data on it, so I could blow everything away and reformat if it all went bad :) > About the BeOS? Years or months? :) I'm pretty sure iPod Inc... er, I mean Apple, will keep MacOS alive for a while for show purposes. However, dual boot to OS B is not a selling point for OS A. People always wind up spending most of their time in one or the other, and setting the default boot option to that OS. The other OS gets out of date. Since more software is available for Win than MacOS, people will be buying Win software and spending more time in that OS. MacOS will atrophy.
From: zwsdotcom on 7 Apr 2006 11:50
> Folks can already put Linux on PowerPC Macs. Good question I know, I'm one of them: <http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-madmac1/> <http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-madmac2/> <http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-madmac3/> <http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-madmac4/> What I'm interested in is being able to run MacOS for the consumer stuff like games, and Linux for the development work that I can't get done inside MacOS. > > (How much do we all want to bet that within five years MacOS X is in > > the same place as BeOS?) > > I wouldn't make that bet. What was the installed base of BeOS? What was the installed base of OS/2 versions 2.0 through Warp? |