[Gllug] Linux for Mac

[Branden Faulls]

Yellow Dog Linux puts out a pretty good RedHat based distro that comes 
with a snazzy graphical installer.  I recently installed 2.3 on an old 
PPC 8600/300 and it worked fairly well. YDL even comes with apt-get so 
updating the system is quick and easy.

That said, I found that YDL 2.3 didn't have some of the packages that I 
had become accustomed to in Debian, so I made the switch.  Debian PPC, 
though not as simple to install, is still, fantastically Debian.

Mac/PPC hardware really gets unleashed on a Linux system.  You'll never 
want to go back.

Helpful hints:

Use the YDL mailing list archive and site for their excellent Mac/PPC 
documentation.

If you are frightened of bootloaders or need a Mac OS(*) partition, 
BootX is the way to go.  Very easy.

Subscribe to the debian-powerpc or ydl mailing lists and use the 
respective irc channels.  The Mac/PPC Linux community is as helpful as 
the rest of the lot.

Good luck

Branden


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