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  Why Install Linux on Your Mac?
Subject:   binutils and other fancy stuff
Date:   2005-01-22 14:21:37
From:   fitchmicah
So, the reason why I'm installing linux is because the program I want uses GNU binutils to compile, and that doesn't work on Mac OS X. Specifically, I want objcopy so that I can compile Cinelerra. Someone has patched up some source for cinelerra to use a home made version objcopy, but that just wasn't working. The only thing I hate is getting X11 to work on this old G4/450 AGP. It just doesn't happen. I got Debian Woody to work fine, but when I updated to Sarge a few days later, X stopped working and no one on the internet seems to know why. I have an installation of Gentoo that I put on my firewire drive a while back (and I couldn't get X to work on it, even though I tried for like 5 months) that I am trying to update right now, hoping to get X to work. The thing I hate (and like) about Gentoo is that it compiles everything from source, and that is boring. Peace out brother.