[Klug-general] Good Distro for Mac PPC

[Peter Childs]

On 05/12/2007, George Prowse <cokehabit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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There is always Debian.

http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/

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))

Peter.
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