The Intuitive Life: Ubuntu Linux, Yellowdog Linux and Mac OS X, All on One PowerBook? | Linux Today

The Intuitive Life: Ubuntu Linux, Yellowdog Linux and Mac OS X, All on One PowerBook?

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Dave Taylor
May 17, 2005

“In a bit of a break from business analysis, I thought it would
be fun to post one of my more technical articles to re-establish my
‘geek cred,’ if you will. This article details the trials and
tribulations of turning a perfectly good Apple PowerBook into a
tri-boot system with Mac OS X, Yellow Dog Linux and Ubuntu
Linux.

“Mac OS X is built of two components, Darwin, the BSD-based Unix
underpinnings, and Aqua, the beautiful graphical user interface we
Mac heads have all grown to love. However, there are other
operating systems and other work environments that can be installed
on an Apple system, based on popular open source Linux
applications…”


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