The Linux kernel is now up and running on an Intel iMac, and as such the Linux guys have beaten the windows guys. "Using elilo and a modified Linux kernel, we can boot from a USB hard disk on the 17" iMac Core Duo. We are using the hacked vesafb driver to inherit the bootloader's framebuffer, keyboard and a USB network card work. Gentoo runs and can compile the Linux kernel." Note that you can't really do much more than stare at the shell prompt, as no graphical environment boots yet.
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Member since:2005-07-23
Thanks Rahul.
I'm curious if you could make any comment.....
do you know what the near future holds in regards to FC5 and if redhat/fedora will be making any contributions to it any time soon?
I know this is Novell's baby(for the most part) but anybody should be able to see that this benefits us all, including red hat.
Just curious. :-P
Edited 2006-02-17 02:34
Member since:2005-07-06
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do you know what the near future holds in regards to FC5 and if redhat/fedora will be making any contributions to it any time soon? "
Contributions to what?. Not sure of the question.
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I know this is Novell's baby(for the most part) but anybody should be able to see that this benefits us all, including red hat. "
How is Novell involved in Intel on Macs?. I am confused now
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2005-07-06
Fedora in the development tree and in FC5 will support this out of the box through the open source broadcom drivers