What about Linux-on-Mac?

[Alexander Holst]

Am 06.09.2004 um 20:01 schrieb 
yellowdog-general-request@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com:

> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 12:48:40 -0400
> From: Steve Roy <sroy@mac.com>
> Subject: Re: What about Linux-on-Mac?
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>
> On Sep 6, 2004, at 10:05 AM, Zugwrack wrote:
>
>> Or better yet just use the opendarwin project to use the same
>> applications that are run in linux, except they have been ported to
>> run on the darwin layer in OS X.
>
> This is all very cool but missing the point, which is that I need to
> run the Java software I develop in a complete Linux environment.
>
> It's interesting that Linux can run on an iPod and that Linux can host
> Mac OS X, but not the opposite. I would love to see the iPod driven by
> Mac OS X Lite instead of the closed OS it currently use. And to stay on
> point, I think it would be tremendously useful to be able to run Linux
> within Mac OS X. The reason it hasn't been done yet is probably that
> the Linux developer community is probably bigger than the Mac OS
> X/Darwin community.


Or, you could look into PPC architecture emulators such as:

Pear PC
http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/

or

QEMU
http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/

Maybe one of them will be what you are looking for and you will be able 
to get it running under OSX and boot Linux in a virtual machine ;)

Alex


Alexander Holst
Pforzheim University of Applied Sciences
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