Linux support for Mac hardware (Re: [Techtalk] Linux Laptops)

[Mary]

On Thu, Oct 27, 2005, Kathryn Andersen wrote:
> And would it be harder to maintain having two different kinds of
> hardware? (Since my desktop is x86 anyway)
> Mind you, if one is using GenToo (as I am at the moment) maybe it
> wouldn't be so hard, since the source would be the same for both.

Except for programs where some or all of the source is in assembly
code...

I don't know of huge difficulties specific to having machines with
different architectures. You can't copy compiled executables from one
machine to the other, but I don't do that often anyway.

-Mary