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Yaboot

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Yaboot is a boot loader for PowerPC-based hardware running Linux, particularly New World ROM Macintosh systems. [1]

9 relations: Booting, BootX (Linux), Comparison of boot loaders, Linux, Mac OS 9, Macintosh, New World ROM, Open Firmware, PowerPC.

Booting

In computing, booting is starting up a computer or computer appliance until it can be used.

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BootX (Linux)

BootX is the name of a graphical bootloader developed by Benjamin Herrenschmidt, which runs as an application or an extension to Mac OS 8 and 9 that allows Old World Apple computers to boot Linux.

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Comparison of boot loaders

The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of available boot loaders.

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Linux

Linux is a family of free and open-source software operating systems built around the Linux kernel.

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Mac OS 9

Mac OS 9 is the ninth and final major release of Apple's classic Mac OS operating system.

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Macintosh

The Macintosh (pronounced as; branded as Mac since 1998) is a family of personal computers designed, manufactured, and sold by Apple Inc. since January 1984.

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New World ROM

New World ROM computers are Macintosh models that do not use a Macintosh Toolbox ROM on the logic board.

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Open Firmware

Open Firmware, or OpenBoot in Sun Microsystems parlance, is a standard defining the interfaces of a computer firmware system, formerly endorsed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

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PowerPC

PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaboot

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