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Re: Debian install on Virtual PC / OS X



On 1/8/04 3:03 PM, "David Z Maze" wrote:

> If I understand what Virtual PC does properly, the actual hardware
> inside the Mac is somewhat irrelevant; you'd need to figure out what
> network hardware Virtual PC is emulating and use a driver for that.

Okay that makes sense, I guess I will dig/google around that path.
> 
> You'll almost certainly get noticably better performance, and not have
> an intermediate layer of Microsoft, if you installed Debian (PPC) on
> the Macintosh directly.  The downside is that you won't be able to use
> Debian and Macintosh programs at the same time, since you can only be
> booted into one OS or the other.  Maybe there's something like VMWare
> that's a PPC virtualizer out there?

Totally agree, was more or less just f*rting around with the possibility of
testing Debian on Virtual PC, we have 3 regularly Debian installs on regular
PC boxes running.

Thanks!

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