You can tell it's not a G5 if you follow the link..The guy posted a copy of his dmesg output.'CPU0: Intel Genuine Intel(R) CPU 1400 @ 1.83GHz stepping 08'And to the guy who said ANY linux distro would work:It will, so long as the boot kernel has EFI compiled in, and the proper video drivers.And about VMWare: Why? You'd have a degraded XP (driver wise) running on top of a hacked linux distro. The thing would probably be as slow as Win 3.1.
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You can tell it's not a G5 if you follow the link..
The guy posted a copy of his dmesg output.
'CPU0: Intel Genuine Intel(R) CPU 1400 @ 1.83GHz stepping 08'
And to the guy who said ANY linux distro would work:
It will, so long as the boot kernel has EFI compiled in, and the proper video drivers.
And about VMWare: Why? You'd have a degraded XP (driver wise) running on top of a hacked linux distro. The thing would probably be as slow as Win 3.1.