[WEB4LIB] RE: Mac resurgence

[Dennis Moser]

WARNING: Slight drift of topic!

Darryl,

Actually...you CAN format the drive and you most certainly CAN load Red Hat
on the iMac. There is a far too much misinformation floating around about
what you "can" or "can't" do on any Mac.

For the curious:

<A HREF="www.linuxppc.org">www.linuxppc.org</A>
<A HREF="www.linuxppc.com">www.linuxppc.com</A>
<A HREF="www.yellowdoglinux.com">www.yellowdoglinux.com</A>

...both of these distributions, LinuxPPC and Yellow Dog Linux, use the Red
Hat distribution. Yellow Dog was specifically ported to work with the
G3-series Macs and will install on the "floppy-less" (Aw, come on, be
honest! When did you last actually USE a floppy?) iMac with tremendous
success.

I use Yellow Dog on my Mac PPC 8500, PPC7200, and have been threatening to
use it on my wife's iMac. In fact, on the 8500, I use "webmin" to administer
the Linux instance and it thinks that it's Red Hat 6.1 on a Pentium 200.

Dennis Moser, MILS, Web Librarian
John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center
Houston Academy of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library
1133 M. D. Anderson Blvd, Houston, TX 77030-2809
dennism at library.tmc.edu

-----Original Message-----
From: Darryl Friesen <Darryl.Friesen at usask.ca>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at webjunction.org>
Date: Monday, January 17, 2000 11:46 AM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] RE: Mac resurgence


>
>Please Roy.  Say it isn't so!  Say it isn't so!!
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>I must admit that even I, and anti-Mac user, found the iMac pretty sexy
when
>it came out.  It has a certain coolness factor that I think appeals to us
>nerds -- a really screamin' machine that looks good too.  Almost doesn't
>matter that it's a Mac.  Almost.
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>I guess my only problem with the iMac is that you can't format the drive
and
>put Red Hat on it.  :)
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>- Darryl
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