[TriLUG] Linux on a Mac?

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 09:41, Matt Pusateri wrote:
> On Wed, November 3, 2004 9:11 am, linux r said:

> >
> > 2.  If so, would I need to get another <distribution> to run on a mac?

> 
> I beleiver Gentoo ( http://www.gentoo.org ) has a PowerPC port.  You
> might try that.  You will definetly need a distro ported for the Mac.
> 

Good point, Gentoo has a PowerPC  (for Mac) version, as does Debian.
Here is a central point for discussion of Linux on PowerPC (for Mac): 
http://penguinppc.org/mac/
(note that there are other versions of the PowerPC for certain strange
IBM workstations, which are *not* what you have in the G4/G5.)

According to the "distributions" list there there is a Fedora/PPC
version available (remember, Fedora is the development/community-built
cousin of Red Hat Enterprise Linux).   Information is here:
http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.html

But it's not clear how up-to-date or complete that is.  I'd really
recommend YellowDog Linux over this if you want a "Red Hat style"
distribution that has a great deal of community support.

Jeremy

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