What about Linux-on-Mac?

[J.T.Blaylock]

You might keep an eye on PearPC, http://pearpc.sourceforge.net/. It is 
a PPC emulator. That's what I'm doing. I think someday I will be able 
to install it on OS X and run it with Apple's X11 and install any 
number of PPC operating systems. They will all be on disk images, no 
need to reboot. I can't wait! People install Bochs on Windows and run 
other x86 operating systems. Same idea here. Unfortunately it won't 
compile for OS X yet. At least not for me.
On Sep 6, 2004, at 12:42 PM, Steve Roy wrote:

> On Sep 6, 2004, at 1:33 PM, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Aha! You did not say that before. Have you considered a PC Linux 
>> installation on Virtual PC?
>
> Sure did. :) It was the last sentence of the message that started this 
> thread.
>
>> If you *really* want to develop for Linux, your most cost effective 
>> means may be to purchase (or scrounge) a cheap used PC and install 
>> Linux on that. I bought a 933 MHz Dell Mystery Box for about US$210 
>> from this site:
>>
>> <http://www.dellauction.com/>
>>
>> It runs Mandrake Linux 9.2 like a charm!
>
> My PowerBook runs YDL like a charm. :) I also have a PC and a Sun box, 
> so I'm not running out of hardware options to run Linux. All I was 
> saying was, since we have Mac-on-Linux, it would be great to have 
> Linux-on-Mac. This way when I want to test one of my Java apps, I 
> wouldn't have to reboot to do so.
>
>>> I would love to see the iPod driven by Mac OS X Lite instead
>>> of the closed OS it currently use.
>>
>> That would be interesting, but of limited usefulness, I think.
>>
>> <opinion> Mac OS X is too complex for the kinds of things one does on 
>> an iPod. The iPod's OS (whatever it is called) is really well tuned 
>> to one-handed operation using a limited set of input controls. Kudos 
>> to the company (I have forgotten its name) Apple contracted for the 
>> interface design design. Just as one might not want to be running 
>> Microsoft Windows on a cell phone (no matter how dumbed down), one 
>> probably doesn't want to run Mac OS X on an iPod. </opinion>
>
> We're just discussing for fun, but you're forgetting that Windows CE 
> exists for embedded devices, and you also forget that the UI of the 
> iPod is not the same thing as the OS. The UI of the iPod is just a 
> program like the Finder. The iPod could have the same UI that it has 
> now, no matter what OS it uses.
>
> Steve
>
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