[Klug-general] Good Distro for Mac PPC

[George Prowse]

MacGyveR wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 December 2007 20:50, Colin McCarthy wrote:
>> On Dec 5, 2007 8:49 PM, Colin McCarthy <binarysignal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Dec 5, 2007 8:07 PM, Alan at COMM-TECH
>>> <alan at communitytechnology.org.uk>
>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have a recommendation for a (current) Linux distro for the
>>>> Mac PPC processor, apart from the proverbial Yellow Dog.
>>>>
>>>> We have got in a number of pre-OSX G3's and iMacs. OS10 will go on them
>>>> but ...not gracefully. Imagine a tiger in a strait jacket...
>>>>
>>>> Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>> Alan
>>> Good old Ubuntu seems to be available for the PPC,
>>> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/7.04/release/
>>> Not sure if version 7.10 is though.
>>>
>>> Colin
>> Doh! It is http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/7.10/release/
> 
> how about yellow dog:
> 
> http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/
> 
There was the day when the only thing anyone would consider for PPC was 
Gentoo and FBSD but for any of us normal folk i would suggest Ubuntu. 
Remember, just like you can get Solaris kernel with GNU userland you can 
also get BSD kernel with Gentoo userland with G/FBSD

George