MacShrine

MacTel-Linux has announced the achievement of a major milestone in their quest to port the open-source OS to Mactel hardware. Linux now boots on the new Intel 17″ iMac. Here’s what they had to say:

Using elilo and a modified Linux kernel, we can boot from a USB hard disk on the 17″ iMac. We are using the hacked vesafb driver to inherit the bootloader’s framebuffer, keyboard and a USB network card work. Gentoo runs and can compile the Linux kernel.

I suppose this deserves a “Congrats!”. I’d give it till the end of the year before we see full Linux compatibility on the whole MacTel line.