[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] soas live cd on MacBook? How?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 03:45:21PM -0300, Andrea Mangiatordi wrote:
>Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Beware that if "blessing" is similar to that of classic MacOS, then 
>> it includes adding a small binary piece that is *not* free software.  
>> In other words, it may be illegal to publish SoaS as pre-blessed 
>> images.
>
>Hi everybody,
>I have a pre-Intel mac, so I can't test it directly, but AFAIK there 
>are many linux distributions which run flawlessly on a Mac (both 
>powerpc and intel) and they even have a livecd option (I can think of 
>Ubuntu, but there can be others). So, if Ubuntu can boot, there should 
>be a free software way to do it..

You cannot run the currently released SoaS on a PowerPC Macintosh.

The reason MacOS X seemingly runs across platforms is that all its 
components are compiled for both platforms.

SoaS is only currently compiled for 32bit x86, which works on amd64 but 
not on PowerPC.

Yes, it is certainly possible to run Linux on PowerPC (and ARM, and 
Motorola 68k and a lot of other platforms), SoaS is just not prepared 
for that yet, and most probably if/when it happens, it will be provided 
as a separate image, not a combined one for multiple platforms as with 
some Apple software.


(...as far as I am aware - I am not directly involved in the SoaS work)


Kind regards,

   - Jonas

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