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On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 18:03 +0100, Edgar Hucek wrote: |
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> For your intresst. Last week i bought a new toy. |
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> One of those shiny new Intel iMac's. I search the |
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> net if someone is trying to get linux on it. I saw |
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You apparently missed our own bugzilla[1][2]. |
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> only most people only wanna tu run windows on it *gah*. |
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> So i started a little research. At the moment i have |
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> Gentoo Linux running on it on an external USB hdd. |
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> Wouldn't it be a nice storry for the Gentoo newssite ? |
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Sure it would. Even better would be that 2006.0 has support for booting |
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on these new machines because we cooperated to get the necessary support |
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into catalyst. |
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> Look here for a first snapshoot and some infos. |
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> http://xbox-linux.org/mactel/index.php/Main_Page |
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> I plan to releas patches and an howtoo soon. |
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Please contact me immediately, as there is a very limited window of |
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opportunity for us to be able to make the necessary changes to get this |
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in before the 2006.0 release. |
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> Things need some polish. |
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> At the Moment only some things are tested. For |
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> the video i use a patched vesafb driver. The kernel |
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> 2.6.16-rc3 seems to have some acpi problems on it. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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