Posted on 08/23/2005 7:19:48 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
When Apple Computer announced in June that it planned to move to Intel chips, one of the companies left in the lurch was Terra Soft Solutions.
The small Colorado company had carved out a nice niche specializing in selling Linux for Macs and other machines that use IBM's PowerPC chips. In the days following Apple's bombshell, Terra Soft quickly announced plans to seek out alternative hardware on which its Yellow Dog Linux could run.
This week, Terra Soft is announcing it has filled some of the void created by Apple's move. Under a new deal, Terra Soft will resell PowerPC-based servers from Mercury Computer Systems. Mercury's XR9 systems use the same G5 chip as Apple's Xserve, but at 2.4GHz, the chips are slightly faster than those used in Apple's top-of-the-line servers.
Yeah, you're correct about laptop support.
And yes, knoppix is a good try as you don't have to install it and they really keep up on their drivers.... they have to it's a live CD.
After a year.......... you're missing alot. The speed in which OSS software evolves is unprecedented.
Just for the sake of adding a date to the discussion...
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=mandrake
Mandrake 9 was released in 2002. You're in for a big surprise the next time you try. Fedora Core 5 comes out next february. I recommend giving it a try.
I'll give one of them a whirl when they've improved laptop hardware support. No use in frying something, or burning a CD and finding out I can't run the thing.
http://opesix.com/blogen/index.php?p=13
Found through
http://www.linux-laptop.net/
You're golden.
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