Flash9000

Oh my gosh this has been a great form.

And I am not giving up. Though, I'll grant the incompatible binary thing is a considerable wall to get over, I am still going to try and take this a step further.

I have two questions. The answers to which will let me know how far I can really go on this notion.

1.) Some Apple computers, like the MacBook Pro, and iMac- ship with Intel processors. I am considering buying a MacBook Pro for other. But since it has an Intel CPU under the hood, would Houdini work if I ran linux on that processor?

2.) Using a serious math compiler such Xcode 2 or MATLAB, could I port the linux code to the PowerPC binary?

Perhaps this is not the right form to post this question. But I have to admit I am very curious about this possibility. I must have Houdini.
cg

Binary. Hmm
I am running a Dual 1.8 G5 Apple machine. I believe it is a 64 bit machine.
I grabbed the “linux i686 gcc3/4” because that was across from the Ubuntu Linux 5.10 listing. There is a “Linux x86 64gcc3.4” Should I have tried that one?

Should I uninstall the other one? How do I uninstall?

THANK YOU RickW, FrankFirsching, JColdrick, scorpion007, tallkien, and NTmatter2.

Even though I haven't gotten to running the program yet, you are making this all of this frustration a fun experience. You are helping me a great deal and I will not forget it.

Thanks for the extensive notes. I am archiving them. If I ever make it big time, you all can come with me.
cg