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Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World)

Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World)

Posted Feb 10, 2006 19:38 UTC (Fri) by awoods (subscriber, #21721)
In reply to: Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World) by flewellyn
Parent article: Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World)

Yes, but Linux on an Intel-based Mac is somewhat of a new frontier.


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Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World)

Posted Feb 10, 2006 21:15 UTC (Fri) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]

It'll be interesting to see the EFI-based boot process, for sure.

Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World)

Posted Feb 11, 2006 9:40 UTC (Sat) by toufeeq_hussain (guest, #25235) [Link]

Linux already has EFI support right ? unlike Windows XP.

Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World)

Posted Feb 11, 2006 15:49 UTC (Sat) by spot (subscriber, #15640) [Link]

> Linux already has EFI support right ? unlike Windows XP.

Yes, but the EFI implementation on the Mactel is significantly altered from the Itanium EFI, so there is still some work that needs to be done in order to make it function.

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