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Linux Journal: Yellow Dog Linux Installs Neatly on an iPod

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Dave Taylor
May 2, 2006

“The concept’s great: what would it be like to have a
pocket-size device that I could plug in to just about any Macintosh
and by simply rebooting the computer be running a full-blown Linux
installation? There are oodles of Linux OSes for Intel
architectures, of course, but the Mac, until very recently, has
been built around the Motorola architecture, so the number of
choices are rather fewer.

“One of the few Linux OSes for the PowerPC is called Yellow Dog,
from Terra Soft Corp…”

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