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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 06:55:12PM -0300, Andrea Mangiatordi wrote:
>Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> You cannot run the currently released SoaS on a PowerPC Macintosh.
>
>That's why I wrote "so I can't test it directly" ;)

Ah, ok :-)


>> SoaS is only currently compiled for 32bit x86, which works on amd64 
>> but not on PowerPC.
>
>Yeah, I had to use jhbuild and precompiled ubuntu packages in order to 
>try and use Sugar.
>
>I don't really know if the boot management system is the same on all 
>Macs, what I wanted to say is that there are live Linux distributions 
>for both series and those distros only include free software, so there 
>won't be any need for the developers to use proprietary blessings.

Intel Macs use EFI.  Newer PowerPC Macs used OpenFirmware (yes, same 
interface as used on XOs).

Yes, it is possible to boot, also without "blessed" boot environment.

What a "blessed" environment provides is improved recognition by the 
user-friendly builtin Apple boot selector.

(the free "rEFIt" boot selector is user-friendly too, but not builtin, 
so less ideal for SoaS).


  - Jonas

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