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...
> 
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