Re: Linux distro for early PowerPC based Mac?

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On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 05:37:48PM +1000 Tony Langdon said:
> At 05:21 PM 9/19/2006, you wrote:
> >You should be able to run the latest stable debian on it. I set up an
> >old beige 7200 a few years back and from memory I had to have a small
> >macos partition that would then auto boot the linux partition. What
> >Mhz is the CPU and how much RAM does it have? I think you will be
> >pushing it to run any GUI. You could also try Xubuntu for PPC.
> 
> Not sure, but it is a 7200, as it turns out.  Currently, it has no OS 
> on it from what I can tell.

I set up a 7200 with Debian last year for my neighbour to use as a
firewall. As for a GUI, you can always use ice or xfce if you are low on
memory.

Sam
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