[TriLUG] Linux on a Mac?

[Brandon Newport]

I run debian on my dual G4 and love it.

-brandon

Jeremy Portzer (jeremyp at pobox.com) wrote:
>
> 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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