27th September 2003, 8:56 PM
Linux is a sort of technology I guess you could say, and it is presented in several distributions. For PC, the most popular are Red Hat and Mandrake. There are multiple Linux distro's for the Mac as well. The most popular is SUSE.
OS X is based on Darwin *I believe* which is based on BSD which is based on UNIX. Linux is also based on Unix, but that does not mean software developed for Linux will run on OS X or even UNIX for that matter. OS X is already so powerful that you really never need to install linux on a Mac. You can easily setup servers and whatnot with the stuff OS X is already built upon. The only reason someone might want Linux on their Mac is for Linux-exclusive software or just for the heck of having another operating system.
OS X is based on Darwin *I believe* which is based on BSD which is based on UNIX. Linux is also based on Unix, but that does not mean software developed for Linux will run on OS X or even UNIX for that matter. OS X is already so powerful that you really never need to install linux on a Mac. You can easily setup servers and whatnot with the stuff OS X is already built upon. The only reason someone might want Linux on their Mac is for Linux-exclusive software or just for the heck of having another operating system.