Archive for November 6, 2006

Yellow Dog Linux Installs Neatly on an iPod

{ Monday 6 November 2006 @ 06:31:51(+0000) } · { Linux }
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Forget bootable USB pendrives and use an iPod to boot Linux on a Mac. 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.

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