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Ctrl+Alt+De1337 writes "The Mactel-Linux folks have now successfully booted Linux on a 17" Core Duo iMac. They used the elilo bootloader, a modified kernel, and a hacked vesafb to boot from a USB drive. No GUI pictures for now, just white text on a black background. The distro of choice was Gentoo, and instructions and patches are promised this weekend."slashdot?g=3744

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I wonder if Apple would be better off just selling a modified version of their OS that would run on PCs? It seems like there are quite a few people out there who would buy into that. Maybe they are restricting it to their own hardware just so that they can be bringing in money from hardware sales? Another part of the philosophy might be that if all Macs are using similar hardware, they will generally be more stable and easier to provide cuttomer support for than if there were infinite possible hardware configurations running their OS. :blink:

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