Blog of Zeke Franco—Quasarkitten.net

Summary (very light summary):

"So why would Apple even want to venture into supporting Linux on OS X “Lynx?’. . . countries are embracing the collaborative model of open source on a national level to fend off caged IT models. Apple’s future moves to support Linux natively on OS X via “Lynx” will drive this revolution even farther than the eye could see"

The story goes through a lot of things that Apple may do in the future.read more | digg story

My Take

Personally I'd love to be able to run Linux in OS X or at least linux apps, I know you can do some of this with Fink & X11 But to be able to run SuSE, Gentoo, or Ubuntu inside OS X would be cool. With boot camp I'm sure the Gentoo users will get it dual booting, so I'll be looking foward to that when I get my macbook. And I know a lot of my Linux friends will be buying a mac laptop if they can run linux on it natively, or concurrently.

And hopefully more desktop versions of Linux will be easy enough that nongeeks will want to use it and will want to use it on apple hardware.

Edit, 4/21/2006 1:09am:

Parallels Workstation looks very promising, this program allows you to run all types of OSes inside of a window in OS X. You can even run multiple OS concurrently. Parallels can run MSDOS, Win 3.1 - XP to, Red hat Linux and other versions of Linux, I even read a story about someone running Next's Openstep in it! The new beta has added some features such as being able to run the guest OS in full screen mode (it hides the apple menu atop, so it looks exactly as if it running as the only OS) the best part about this is support for dual monitors, So now I can run gentoo or ubuntu fullscreen on one monitor and OS X on the other. This is what I call heaven!

Edit, 10/11/2007 4:07am:

Currently I have Ubuntu 7.04 running in Parallels it wasn’t very easy to get it going, but it wasn’t super difficult either. Just to be clear installing Ubuntu is very easy, it just that Parallels can be fussy.

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