By Renai LeMay
Published: Wednesday 09 March 2005
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OS11
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Leeds
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Programmer
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Linux on G5's was not working at the beginning. After a short time that issue was solved as Linux kernel developers could understand some specs of the thermal control system looking at the source code of Apple's Darwin operating system, that, as most of you already know, is open-source software.
http://penguinppc.org/ppc64/
I thought the PowerMac G5 had nine different fans/...
Anonymous
The problem of running another OS on a PowerMac G5...
James Katt
Yeah right! We all know that he's using MacOS X al...
Anonymous
Linux on G5's was not working at the beginning. Af...
OS11
No problem at all! Yellow Dog Linux has fan contro...
Chad Williams
And why not? The PowerPC platform has a very inter...
Neal Jackson
Linus is right of course about Processor Architect...
Simon Bazley
I also run GNU/Linux on a PowerPC box--actually, s...
Anonymous
As harsh as the last post sounds, I have to agree....
Ron Nath
Leave it to the rich ones to always get the FREE g...
Richard E. Williams
Now if only both the CPU _and_ the OS supported ru...
Joe Whitehead
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