The New iMac

[Jules Bean]

On Mon, 11 Oct 1999 hollis at andrew.cmu.edu wrote:

> 
> Jules Bean wrote:
> > 
> > I'm pondering buying myself a new computer, and the iMac is one of the
> > choices.  It has considerable advantages for me (easy portability, no
> > fan), but I certainly don't want something which can't run Linux.
> 
> Tell that to leadership at apple.com. Seriously. Everyone who is in the
> same situation should tell Apple. That's the only way they'll take Linux
> seriously.

Ah.  It's funny how you don't notice obvious ideas until someone points
them out to you.

I'll do exactly that.

> 
> > On the other hand, I'm very happy to work on getting Linux to run on it
> > (once I've got one) - I know my way around C and have some experience
> > prodding around kernels and booting machine off serial consoles.
> > 
> > Has anyone got any information about how hard it's going to be to get
> > Linux running on the iMac's, and whether anyone in particular is planning
> > to work on it?  (I imagine the linuxppc.com people will be keen to, if
> > it's anything like as successful piece of hardware as the original iMac).
> 
> I think there are plenty of developers who would be interested. Right
> now the biggest obstacle is availability - no one has them yet. In two
> months, *then* the obstacle will be the technical details.

I'll email leadership, and continue thinking about it myself.

Jules


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