[TriLUG] MAC MINI and Linux

[Marty Ferguson]

Tayfun Teksoy wrote:

>Is Mac Mini any good for Linux?
>Is there a Linux version available for Mac Mini?
>What are the compatibility issues and porting difficulties? 
>
>Will appreciate if you could share your experience.
>
>Tayfun
>  
>
I'm sure yellowdog and other Power-PC based gnu-linux distributions 
would work quite well on the mini,
but isn't that a bit like bringing coals to newcastle?  OSX is 
bsd-baseed, and while OSX itself is not open sourced,
there are lots of available open source projects.

Below I've pasted my "google" on yellowdog.

PowerPC Linux - Yellow Dog Linux for PowerPC Computers 
<http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/>Yellow Dog Linux is Terra Soft 
Solution's Linux distribution for PowerPC computers. YDL is a proven 
home and office workstation, server, code development OS. An *...*
www.*yellowdog*linux.com/ - 21k - Jan 22, 2005 - Cached 
<http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:z5cEL3xmrMgJ:www.yellowdoglinux.com/+yellowdog&hl=en&lr=lang_en&client=firefox-a> 
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