Revision as of 17:39, 1 April 2023 edit DFlhb (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users, IP block exemptions 17,463 edits Added page nums. That ISBN wasn't the same as my copy; fixed. Tag: Visual edit ← Previous edit		Revision as of 17:44, 1 April 2023 edit undo DFlhb (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users, IP block exemptions 17,463 edits Dumb mistake of me. PPC Macs didn't have EFI Tag: Visual edit Next edit →
Line 22: [[PowerPC]] Macs can run Linux through both [[Emulator\|emulation]] and [[Multi-booting\|dual-booting]] ("bare metal")<!-- what about virtualization? -->. The most popular PowerPC emulation tools for Mac OS X are Microsoft's [[Virtual PC]], and the open-source [[QEMU]].<ref name="MacOSXUnixGeeks" /> Linux dual-booting is achieved by partitioning the [[boot drive]] ~~and~~, installing the [[~~rEFIt~~Yaboot]] bootloader onto the Linux partition, and selecting that Linux partition as the Startup Disk. This results in users being prompted to select whether they want to boot into Mac OS X or Linux when the machine starts.<ref name=":2" /> By 2008, a number of major Linux distributions had official versions compatible with Mac PowerPC processors<!-- Macs were Big Endian; G3 and G4 were 32-bit, G5 was 64-bit. Many distros now only support Little Endian PPC. -->, including:<ref name=":2">{{Cite book \|last=Dornfest \|first=Rael \|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79871186 \|title=Mac OS X hacks \|date=2003 \|publisher=O'Reilly \|others=Kevin Hemenway \|isbn=0-596-00460-5 \|edition=1st \|___location=Beijing \|pages=234–242 \|oclc=79871186}}</ref> * [[Gentoo Linux\|Gentoo]]<ref name=":2" />

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