That's always a good solution as well, sounds like you can go beyond dual
booting the mac and boot a variety of things, I was under the impression
that one could only dual boot windows with bootcamp, I tried to use bootcamp
to install linux on a mac box and didn't get very far.

On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Anthony Kozar <
mailing-lists-1001@anthonykozar.net> wrote:

> Thanks very much Joe and Brian for the advice!
>
> As much as I'd like to keep the extra $100 and thumb my nose at Apple, I
> think I will also need to install both a newer OS X and Linux.  My wife
> would also like to run Skype and Google Earth, while I may need iChat and
> stuff for communicating with my family.  But I would love to have a recent
> Linux system at my finger tips too although I am more interested in
> non-realtime apps like Common Music, CLM, and Snd.  So, even though
> dual-booting is a bit of a drag, I think that will be the way to go. *
> (I'll probably even leave 10.2 on another drive so that I can test software
> I compile on multiple versions of OS X).
>
> Thanks!
>
> Anthony
>
> * The computer I use everyday right now has OS 9.1, OS 9.2, OS 8.6, OS
> 10.1,
> and Mandrake 9.1 installed on it although I rarely use any of those but the
> first nowadays :)
>
>
> Joseph Sanger wrote on 7/26/08 12:03 AM:
>
> > I have a dual boot ppc powerbook, on which I run OSX10.4 and DebianPPC
> > testing, which I believe is not too different to Ubuntu. I'm still very
> > much learning about Linux and I'm far from being an expert. I do almost
> > all csound stuff on Debian (Mr. Sateler's Debian package was a godsend),
> > but there are certain things which I need OSX for - like skype (I live
> > in Japan and my family are in the UK), and some of the internet stuff
> > (flash etc.) is very flakey. The advantage is that the Debian system is
> > pretty much exclusively for music - with no distractions! The freebob
> > drivers for my firewire soundcard (a presonus firebox) now work fine on
> > Debian, but I had to compile myself a new kernel to do it - not too hard
> > really and there is plenty of information out there. It's worth checking
> > if there are some packages that you need to use on the Linux distro -
> > there is not quite so much available for ppc linux as there is for i386.
>
>
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