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Re: port to Linux... development machine

Kustaa Nyholm wrote: 
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>so we wrote the application in java so we could run on Win32 and OS
>X... now they want to extend to Linux too.
>Trying to buy a development machine for Linux (and without Windoze
>installed) is proving quite hard (I'm in France)!
>Would a Mac run Linux? Any Linux? Would it have to be an intel one?

Yes, I run Fedora 7 in macbook. I can boot to the same partition using parallels as well as in native mode. I've blogged on setting up dual boot in macbook.
I've a intel dual core for your information.

http://codeshepherd.blogspot.com/2007/05/running-fedora-core-on-macbook.html#links has details information on setting up dual boot.



>Suse is the preferred option for Linux flavour, as apparently that's
>what the majority of potential users have been given.
>With both ADC and MSDN subscriptions I would ideally prefer to get a
>machine without any OS pre-installed, but that's like looking for
>hen's teeth  :(
>hoverfrog
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Deepan http://codeshepherd.com/
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