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Hey everyone, I am new to this forum and to mac. I recently purchased a 12" G4 powerbook to end all microsoft drama. I have been a pc user all my life, but got tired of the monthly "blue screen of death"...well never mind you get the point!

Okay, I am an engineering student and one of my classses uses a circuit design simulator called SIMetrix. SIMetrix has versions avaliable for linux and microsoft...I really don't want to run VPC on my powerbook...so what other options do I have???

Must I partition my drive and install a linux OS...or can I just install it on my powerbook since OSX is founded on a unix/linux OS?

Oh, I really don't have any experince on running two operating systems on one machine or with linux/unix either...

Thanks in advance, this seems like a great place you have here! :D


Oh, I tried to use search (even before registering) but my ? seemed very specific and I could not find any help on this...
 
Even if you installed Linux on the PowerBook, the application would most likely not work -- it's not Linux that's the problem, it's the fact that you're running a different kind of processor than the application intended... you've got a PowerPC processor now, and it's probably compiled to run on x86 architecture. If you have access to the source code, though, that's a different matter -- you could compile the code on your machine (if you know the ins and outs of compiling) so you could run it on your PowerBook. If not, I'm sure there are members here that would help you compile the code (I'd be willing!).
 
wow...thanks for the timely response...I have a lot to think about now...I'll get back to you on your offer with the help!
 
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