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Re: (slightly off topic!) port to Linux... development machine


On Oct 9, 2007, at 16:53 , Jeremy Brooks wrote:

I run Linux under Parallels on my MacBook Pro, no problem. I have not tried booting into Linux directly.
There are PPC versions of Linux as well. I believe Debian has one. I am not sure how good the support is for all the hardware though.

I have triple boot on my MBP and Mac Mini IntelCoreDuo: Mac OS X, Linux Ubuntu and Windows XP. While I develop mostly in Mac OS X, Linux and Windows are needed for testing my GUI apps. I have both the Parallels approach (most useful when developing and fixing o.s. specific issues) and the multi-boot approach for "hard testing" (I mean, if you're going to test the performance of an app under Linux or Windows you need to have the real thing). AFAIK people is happily running also Linux distros other than Ubuntu. I've blogged about that here http://www.tidalwave.it/blog/1537 and you'll find also the links to the step-by-step procedure to do.

On another project I'm also working on Linux with PPC (on an old Xserve G4). Java works here too, but the problem is that you only have a VM made by IBM. For instance, this means I can't profile it with my favourite profiler that is the one included in NetBeans, but you can anyway work with it.

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