Linux-Watch: Red Hat Not Working on the Mactel. Yet. | Linux Today

Linux-Watch: Red Hat Not Working on the Mactel. Yet.

Written By
SJV
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Jan 28, 2006

[ Thanks to Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols
for this link. ]

“Despite what you may have read about Red Hat Inc. working on
porting Linux to Apple’s Mactel, Red Hat isn’t ‘officially’ doing
this. Yet.

“In a recent CNET blog entry, my comrade in Linux reporter
Stephen Shankland wrote that, according to Gillian Farquhar, Red
Hat was already working on the port.

“All the other reports of Red Hat or Fedora coming soon to an
Intel-powered Mac near you seem to have sprung from this one
report…”

Complete
Story

SJV

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

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