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Re: Linux booted on Mactel.

  • Subject: Re: Linux booted on Mactel.
  • From: Rick <none@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:05:22 GMT
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Road Runner High Speed Online http://www.rr.com
  • References: <pan.2006.02.17.00.55.36.868122@nospam.liamslider.com> <dt3d35$n10$2@godfrey.mcc.ac.uk>
  • User-agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.)
  • Xref: news.mcc.ac.uk comp.os.linux.advocacy:1082211
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:39:49 +0000, Roy Schestowitz wrote:

> __/ [Liam Slider] on Friday 17 February 2006 01:02 \__
> 
>> http://xbox-linux.org.nyud.net:8090/mactel/index.php/Main_Page
>> 
>> "Status
>> 
>> Using elilo and a modified Linux kernel, we can boot from a USB hard
>> disk on the 17" iMac Core Duo. We are using the hacked vesafb driver to
>> inherit the bootloader's framebuffer, keyboard and a USB network card
>> work. Gentoo runs and can compile the Linux kernel. "
>> 
>> There she wrote.
> 
> In other intersting news, Dvorak speculates that Apple will become a
> hardware maker with Windows as the operating system.
> 
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1927885,00.asp
> 
> The guy predicted Apple's move to Intel, among other things. So, all in
> all, I wouldn't discard the ludicrous statement prematurely.

Oh, please. Dvorak has been making all kinds of Apple-related predictions
for years. Just because Jobs gets a bug and does something Dvorak
'predicted' doesn't mean Dvorak has a clue.

-- 
Rick


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