<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 05/12/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">George Prowse</b> <<a href="mailto:cokehabit@gmail.com">cokehabit@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
MacGyveR wrote:<br>> On Wednesday 05 December 2007 20:50, Colin McCarthy wrote:<br>>> On Dec 5, 2007 8:49 PM, Colin McCarthy <<a href="mailto:binarysignal@gmail.com">binarysignal@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>>>> On Dec 5, 2007 8:07 PM, Alan at COMM-TECH
<br>>>> <<a href="mailto:alan@communitytechnology.org.uk">alan@communitytechnology.org.uk</a>><br>>>><br>>>> wrote:<br>>>>> Hi All,<br>>>>><br>>>>> Does anyone have a recommendation for a (current) Linux distro for the
<br>>>>> Mac PPC processor, apart from the proverbial Yellow Dog.<br>>>>><br>>>>> We have got in a number of pre-OSX G3's and iMacs. OS10 will go on them<br>>>>> but ...not gracefully. Imagine a tiger in a strait jacket...
<br>>>>><br>>>>> Any ideas?<br>>>>><br>>>>> Alan<br>>>> Good old Ubuntu seems to be available for the PPC,<br>>>> <a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/7.04/release/">
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/7.04/release/</a><br>>>> Not sure if version 7.10 is though.<br>>>><br>>>> Colin<br>>> Doh! It is <a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/7.10/release/">
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/7.10/release/</a><br>><br>> how about yellow dog:<br>><br>> <a href="http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/">http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/</a>
<br>><br>There was the day when the only thing anyone would consider for PPC was<br>Gentoo and FBSD but for any of us normal folk i would suggest Ubuntu.<br>Remember, just like you can get Solaris kernel with GNU userland you can
<br>also get BSD kernel with Gentoo userland with G/FBSD<br><br>George<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Kent mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk">Kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>
<a href="https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent">https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/kent</a><br></blockquote></div><br>There is always Debian.<br><br><a href="http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/">http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/
</a><br><br>But I do have a G3 running Ubuntu at work so it really does work..... (Shame I don't actually use the G3 for anything (most of my PCs are faster))<br><br>Peter.<br>