[plug] linux4imac?

[michelle huma]

Its called yellow dog?  First question answered.  No idea what the rest of 
your email is about but very appreciative of that answer.  I will look for 
this yellow dog.
thanx again.
Mx


>
>That's probably not fair. It just looks like nobody here is very familiar 
>with running linux on PPC machines like Macs - almost everyone is using 
>x86-based machines like Intel and AMD PCs.
>
>Nobody can really post and say "sorry, no-one here has a copy of Yellow Dog 
>to bring along" after all - they can just wait to see if someone /does/.
>
>Someone has pointed you to the Yellow Dog website - you'll find they do a 
>version of linux for PPC machines that will probably run on your iMac. If 
>you can't download it and burn it to CD (slow internet connection, no CD 
>burner, whatever), perhaps a quiet request for someone to do that would do 
>the trick.
>
>If someone answers a post to the effect of "this is what you'll need" like 
>they did, the usual assumption is that unless you post saying "what now?" 
>"didn't work," etc, that did the trick. I for one assumed you were probably 
>downloading the CD images you'd need.
>
>I don't mean to flame here, only to point out why you got the responses you 
>did, or at least why I think you did.
>
>Craig Ringer
>
>

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