Re: Linux distro for early PowerPC based Mac?
Christopher M Bailey <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:05:12 +1000
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You might wanna look at Yellow Dog, never used it myself, but heard good things Cheers, Chris On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 16:56 +1000, Tony Langdon wrote: > Anyone got any suggestions for a distro to run on an early PowerPC > (pre G3) based Mac? I've got one here without an OS, and would like > to put Linux on it. The other choice is MacOS 9.1, but these days, > there's no new apps appearing for that platform, so Linux would be my > preferred choice now. Unfortunately, the machine isn't compatible > with OS X. :-( But I'm hoping Linux will make it much more useful. :) > > Any suggestions? It will be used in a desktop role, so I'm looking > for something that has a reasonable out of the box desktop setup and > is fairly well maintained (security updates via yum, apt, etc > released promptly). > > A wide range of packaged apps would be nice, but if push comes to > shove, I can work from source if needed. :) The machine is going to > be used mostly for Internet access - web browsing, email (mostly > Hotmail via the web) and IM (Gaim! :) ). I'll also be installing > Samba on it as well, as the rest of the machines are Windows based... > > 73 de VK3JED > http://vkradio.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Melbourne Linux Users Group (Australia) > Edit your settings: http://lists.mlug.org.au