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I have a Centos server setup at home and use dyndns.org through my Linksys wrt-54gl to access my server through tunneling VNC over SSH when I’m away from home. From my server desktop screen I do a command rdesktop (internal IP of computers) to get to my PC, Mac, etc and view their screens. Then I copy files to and from the server using its samba shares internally then I SSH files to and from my server using SSH file transfer wherever I’m at. The problem is my Mac Pro is connected through wlan and after a few hours it drops connection and the only way to wake it is to open safari from the Mac Pro at home. I have set the power saving features to tell it to never go to sleep but only sleep the monitor after 15 min. So my options are: find a utility that keeps the Wlan active, write a script file that keeps it active, run a cable from my wireless router to the Mac Pro (not what I want to do) or find a program to send a Wake On Lan packet to the Mac Pro card (I enabled that feature in settings already. The problem is I don’t know of any utilities and I have never used Wake On Lan. Wake On Lan is probably the best choice if it worked. I could run a Linux only or a windows program under wine to do that. if I knew the port I could forward the Mac port for Wake On Lan out from my router then send it a Wake On Lan packet from a website since I know there are websites like that but I’d rather not expose the max externally and I really would like to wake it internally is possible.
Yea I’m There with you Jeffrey, Im a network systems administrator for a small private college and i have my lan at home with various features just haven’t had much time to research a fix and wanted to get some suggestions. thanks

I was wondering if by either using BootCamp or some other third-party software, it is possible to run a Linux based OS (preferably Debian, Fedora or Ubuntu) on an Intel Mac…

I was also wonder if it is possible on older Macs (with PowerPC cores).

Also, I’m not really sure how to go about installing and running in… How DO I go about installing Linux on a PPC/Intel Mac? Can I run both OS X and Linux on the same machine (i.e. boot between the two as I please)? Or do I have to choose just one OS? I’m a Mac “pro” (I’ve been on them all my life so I know my way around the OS) and I feel like I missing out on Linux. I’ve even heard people say that Linux is OS X but for pros so… yeah!
More (hardware) information available upon request.
Also, if you want to recommend a distro other than the ones I listed, that’d be cool.

the fedora wiki is useless, only the install guide is useable

I have Linux Mandriva dual booting with Windows Vista on my laptop and I want to uninstall Mandriva so I can install Ubuntu. I’ve read similar questions to this and a lot of them said I need a boot CD. Well I only have system recovery discs that came with my computer. I also saw that I could use the Win98 boot Floppy disc. Well my laptop doesn’t have a floppy disc drive – is there anywhere I can get it on CD? Where do I get that? It would also help if you could mention the steps to uninstall it like the commands to type, etc. Thank you so much if you answer.

**NOTE: exact same procedure in fedora 12 its easier and quicker to do it in text mode but you could do this using add/remove programs and using system-config-services (if you have command-line-phobia) requires a static ip address. if you dont know how to do that, watch this video www.youtube.com there is a version for windows. i will make a video for that eventually. HOWEVER, i dont recommend using that. windows has speed limits and uptime limits, and quite frankly, this is a program you dont want to be shutting down every 39 days (unless you like the “page not found” logo)