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Running Linux and BSD on the Mac Mini |
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Saturday, 09 April 2005 |
This article
looks at the current state of Linux™ and NetBSD support on the Mini. If
you need all the hardware and options fully supported, these open
source options won't do it for you ... yet. But, if all you need is a
stable kernel, a C compiler, and network support, the code is
high-quality and the price is unbeatable. NetBSD and Yellow Dog Linux
have both begun to support the Mac Mini. Peter Seebach looks at open
source operating system options on this new contender in the embedded
PowerPC platform space.
Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) is based closely on RedHat's Fedora Core 2
operating system; the installer will be immediately familiar to users
who have loaded Fedora recently (and easy to follow even if you
haven't). YDL comes on eight CDs: four install CDs, and four source
CDs. That's a lot of CDs! There isn't a DVD distribution available, and
anyone who is used to the modern Apple single-DVD distributions will
find this a little frustrating. Still, the install is easy, simple, and
quick. Assuming, that is, you've prepped the disk with some free space
for the installer, or plan to overwrite the whole disk. You can install
YDL to an external drive, but it requires more configuration and setup.
It may be easier to install it on the internal drive, and let Mac OS
deal with booting from the external drive. Either way, you're going to
be doing some shuffling if you want to keep your Mac OS X install.
Read more at IBM.com
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