New and Noteworthy: Apple abandons plan to charge US for Aperture Universal Binary crossgrade; more

Apple abandons plan to charge US$49 for Aperture Universal Binary crossgrade Rob Galbraith reports that Apple has abandoned their plan to charge current Aperture owners a fee to obtain the Universal Binary version of the application. Earlier this month, the company had said it would be US$49 to "crossgrade" from the PowerPC version of the program - which will not run on Macs with Intel processors - to the Universal Binary version, which is compatible with both PowerPC Mac and Intel Mac architectures. More.

Red Hat Linux distro to boot on Intel Macs TUAW reports that a Red Hat spokesperson is promising that its Linux distro will boot on the new Intel-based Macs. "This may take a while because they haven't yet purchased any Intel Macs. Secondly Red Hat Fedora hasn't even begun to discuss whether they will be taking a grub or lilo tactic as a bootloader." More.

Previously on MacFixIt

• Intel-based Macs: Rosetta (#3): Application compatibility listings; Java applications a sore spot; more
• iMac Core Duo (Early 2006) (#3): Safe sleep available; Problems with iSub
• iDVD 6.0 (#3): Another fix for stall at "Loading themes"
• GarageBand 3.0 (#3): iChat conflict -- causes no sound output, problems with preferences
• Mac OS X 10.4.x Tiger and Active Directory (#2): Apple aware of, and working on bugs

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