DiscreetFX Platform Shift

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For instant success with the Mac crowd, prepend all of your product names with "i."

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You can try Ubuntu this way as well: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/10.04/release/

The desktop CD image (livecd) they offer will allow you to boot into Ubuntu (which is Linux, of course,) without changing the data on your hard drive.  If you don't like it, you can pop the CD out and reboot into OSX.

I've got Ubuntu running on various PCs and PPC Macs, I have to say I prefer it to OS X by a long shot, especially considering the version of OS X supported on the PPC Macs is a couple of years old already.

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The LiveCD will seem pretty slow as well, since obviously CD access times are much higher than hard disk access times, but at least you'll get to see what it looks like.

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I'm curious now, I've only run OSX on my iMac (which is identical to Franko's.) I think I'll try the LiveCD to see how it runs. (if it runs!)

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I can't seem to get the Ubuntu LiveCD booting on my iMac.  Seems they're problem machines.  Oh well.

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Backed up all my data, burnt the ISO, popped it in, booted up....

Nothing except for a black screen, waited for about an hour & nothing happend... (tried a couple of times)

 
Same issue with mine, there are ways to get it working but not via the LiveCD it seems. You'd need the alternate install CD and would need to hack around with X configurations, too much trouble for me.