[TriLUG] Linux on PowerMacs

[Kevin Otte]

Possibly, though I'm not versed in the ways of the BSDs. You want to 
give it a shot?

On 12/17/2012 02:26 PM, Igor Partola wrote:
> Would NetBSD be a better choice in this case? :)
>
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Kevin Otte <nivex at nivex.net> wrote:
>
>> I have just come into possession of two PowerPC based Macs to play around
>> with.
>>
>> The first is a Power Macintosh 8600/250. It's an OldWorld system that I
>> have spent most of the last two days trying to get Linux on. The farthest I
>> got was the Debian installer attempting to configure the network on DHCP.
>> Packets were going out (I could see the requests on the DHCP server) but
>> nothing was coming back. Given the age of the machine and the amount of
>> hair I've pulled out, I'm guessing the best I can do is find a dumpster for
>> this thing. Does anyone have a recommendation on that score, or be
>> interested in parting the machine out?