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    Shows drivers for Mac OSX, Mac OSX (Intel), and Linux.

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    Simon, that's a good summary of Unix flavours.

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    If you could get EFILive program to stop wanting the driver through Explorer/Device Manager it might work in Codeweavers or WINE or whatever .
    Like I have said Linux has moved forward since the old days , but MDK is so much easier so no one wants to fuss with the API , Mono : http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page has done a lot to help Linux port Winders software !
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    Quote Originally Posted by N0DIH View Post
    I have my HP-UX 11 install CD's somewhere.... Had a HP J210 (3 of them) dual processor and stacked with ram was going to install it on, but never got around to it, I just ditched them, talk about HEAVY machines! My last box was a Sun Ultra 60, dual 450 MHz ultraSparc processors, 2GB ram, SCSI160, man was it nice!

    Yup, I hear you on that, would rather be on MacOS or Linux myself, but my wife likes her stuff that works better in IE7 and won't work right at all anywhere else, so I gave in.... But the kids all miss Linux... I had games galore and cool ones too....

    If we are having a "Mine is bigger than yours contest...." the last HP server I administered.....

    HP Superdome

    16 X 1Ghz PA-RISC cpu's
    20 GB RAM
    2.6 TB of primary disk with 2 sets of HDS Shadow Image / True Copy clones ( so 2.6 x 3 = 7.8 TB ).

    that was a couple of years ago now.

    The most "impressive" server I had was the NCR 5500 series though...

    16 x Pentium 90 CPU's
    4GB RAM
    44 separate SCSI WD busses
    300+ mount points

    The NCR box was decommissioned for Y2K so you can imagine what a beast it was in it's day.

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    Default Why Linux ?

    You can buy a laptop without a OS (Operating System) for 300 bucks cheaper then install Linux which you can get for free and load EFILive then tune away .
    Linux can run on PPC (Mac) without emulation .
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    Why not?
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    OK, what can us Linux users do to assist in getting EFILive ported to the GNU/Linux realm - preferably the Debian/Ubuntu flavor?

    We are here to test, evaluate and help.

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    it would be cool, I would much rather get a laptop and run Linux than windows.

    Still pondering a MacBook Pro and put Windows on dual boot or with Dameware/Parallels. And then I could setup Linux too.... Best of all worlds!

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    I came up the Dec PDP-11 in school (basic only, I just hacked at games like Super Star Trek and tried to keep within out 50k user limitation, so often I had to print out the code, and type it back in!), then Apple II+ with a CPM card and then nothing for a while until we got a Mac Plus with System 7.1 (ha! I still have the original full installer boxed set). I never did programming, never really my bag. I messed with Java and some Unix scripting, but would DARE call myself a programmer... I am so lost in the code it isn't even funny!

    Quote Originally Posted by joecar View Post
    Looking at some of those chronology trees, I can say I have also used TSS7 "System 7".

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    As said , would need the source code to port to Linux , but sounds like V8 would be the best bet for porting .
    If had source could port through Mono . Could see a Lenovo S10 Netbook with Linux and EFILive just setting there waiting to be used for tuning !
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