IBM posts Linux-on-Mac guide
Monday, 16 February 2004 13:25 EST
Apple processor supplier IBM has published an introductory guide to running Linux on PowerPC computers, such as Macs. "Even though most Linux users have treated Linux as an operating system for their x86 white boxes, it runs equally well on PowerPC machines," the report says. The report offers a realistic assessment of the Mac platform and how it can be positively employed by Linux users.
"For many Linux users, the best reason to buy a PowerPC machine will be, quite simply, the range of well engineered and reasonably priced machines available from Apple."
The report admits to the performance liability Apple had been suffering from until it shipped the G5: "Admittedly, the G4 lines – bottom line – do not quite keep up with comparably priced x86 machines in CPU power. The G4s do not lag that far behind, but they do a little. However, Apple makes some of the best laptops available from an ergonomic, aesthetic, battery-life, and weight perspective. All of those features are far more important to me, for a laptop, than raw number-crunching," the author writes.
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