Mandrakelinux 10.1 Out For PPC

joestar writes "Less than two weeks after the release of Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official for x86, Mandrakelinux 10.1 for PPC has been released! The interesting news is that this version of Mandrakelinux is now a community-driven project. This means that Mandrakesoft is not anymore behind the PPC port. Hardware requirements and release notes are available online at Mandrakelinux WiKi. Any volunteer for SPARC & Alpha?"

Re:wwhhyy?

[unapersson]

Mac OSX doesn't run on all PowerPC based hardware though does it? Just a subset. So there's your answer right there.

Re:wwhhyy?

[TheRaven64]

Exactly, which leads to the question of why this is in the Mac section and not the Linux section. There can be no denying that the release of a Linux distribution is related to Linux, while the relevance of this to the Mac is quite tangental.

Re:wwhhyy?

[nine-times]

Well, as someone already mentioned, not all PPC-based computers are Macintoshes. Second, not PPC Macintoshes can run OSX well.

Third, and I don't think it's trivial: Choice. I don't care how good the software I'm using is, I want other options. Every time someone offers me a new option-- even if I'm not going to take advantage of that option-- I'm happy to have it.

When you're locked in to software and have no other options is when you're going to suffer abuse from the developers. Even if the developer that has you locked in doesn't take monopolistic actions, the project will usually turn stagnant and improvements and innovation will slow. Competition is a good force, and it only works when you have competing products.

Re:wwhhyy?

[brpr]

If you're going to spend the money for a Mac you owe itself to yourself to use OS X. It has a superior gui (i'm not trolling!), there's absolutely no hardware compatibility program... <snip>

What if I want to spend the money for a Mac, but don't want to spend the money for a new version of OS X every year? My powerbook came with 10.2 (which is now not very well supported, e.g. latest Apple dev tools won't run on it, Fink doesn't really support it) and the cost of upgrading isn't worth it when I can run Linux (Gentoo) instead.

linux on mac os x

[schuster]

I was wondering if there was a way I could install linux on a kind of virtual hard disk, kind of like the way virtual pc works. I'd love to dive into linux and open source in general, but I don't want to have to worry about screwing up my system either. Re-partitioning is not an option because it would be far more work than I'm willing to put into it.