Tri-Boot Powerbook: Ubuntu, YDL, and OS X

On his site, Dave Taylor has just posted an article that he originally wrote for LinuxWorld Magazine, Ubuntu Linux, Yellowdog Linux and Mac OS X, all on one PowerBook?. For any TUAW readers out there who have ever thought about installing another OS alongside OS X on your machine, for tinkering and testing, this article will prove to be a useful guide and walkthrough of the process, as well as covering some of the pitfalls and incompatibilities that you will encounter along the way.

I'm tempted to give this a shot with one of the two Linux variants discussed, but I don't know if I could stand being tethered to an Ethernet cable. Yuck.

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On his site, Dave Taylor has just posted an article that he originally wrote for LinuxWorld Magazine, Ubuntu Linux, Yellowdog Linux and Mac...

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Eoban

This article is not new, it's from January. http://linux.sys-con.com/read/47809.htm?CFID=149736&CFTOKEN=519C5F0C-9A63-6861-A445E9E95375A934

May 16 2005 at 3:55 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

superpixel

I've used YDL, and dabble in Linux (thanks OS X for forcing me to learn UNIX commands), but find this quote on the link: "I find Mac OS X to be the most productivity enhancing operating environment that I have used - ever." Wow. Someone who uses 63 operating systems is a pretty good judge of such things IMHO...

May 15 2005 at 9:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

iFelix

Pedantic Mode Engaged I was wondering if the term tri-boot is correct. We use dual-boot and not bi-boot so shouldn't the term be ternary-boot? Feel free to ignore this pedantry.

May 15 2005 at 8:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Chris Andrews

If you really don't want to be tethered to an ethernet cable then I know through experience that Debian has Airport support. There may be others.

May 15 2005 at 6:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

SKuklau

You want many (and I mean *many*) operating systems on a PowerBook? Check http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/vpc/ :-)

May 15 2005 at 1:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply