PowerPC

[Chris Cowan]

You probably won't be able to build a PPC system from scratch like you can an 
AMD or INTEL system.  It will be a huge pain in the ass because almost 
everything is controlled by Apple. Your best bet is to find a used system for 
sale on the web. But that's not to say it cant be done... but  your not going 
to be going down to Fry's and building a custom system. 

Also if you have enough money to spend on an Apple, you probably could build 
a faster linux system based on an AMD or INTEL chipset. Plus there are a ton 
more compatible parts. 

The only reason I would install Linux on a PPC is if you already have an 
Apple or have an old one sitting in the closet. I would not spend the money 
to buy a new one just to run Linux. 

Also applications wise, if your using any type of distribution with a package 
manager, you're going to find more apps for the i386 base computer. And they 
will likely run better because not allot of developers have access to PPC 
systems so somethings don't allways work right.

I don't want to discourage you... but I wouldn't try and build a PPC unless 
you all ready have a PPC System or are ready to spend big bucks... especially 
when all your trying to do is run linux.

Chris

On Monday 08 April 2002 12:56 pm, you wrote:
> First build PPC (G3, G4, etc, based computer), *then* install Linux.  If I
> could get OS-X running too that'd be nice, but not necessary.
>
> On Monday 08 April 2002 09:51, you wrote:
> > Are you refering to actually building a PPC Computer for a hardware point
> > of view or are you refering to installing linux on a PPC? I've done
> > several PPC Linux installs (Debain, YellowDog and LinuxPPC) You can find
> > a wealth of information at http://penguinppc.org/
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > On Saturday 06 April 2002 01:59 pm, you wrote:
> > > Hey Trent,
> > > I don't think you'll be able to build a PPC based
> > > machine. This is the chip architecture used in Macs
> > > and the Macintosh clones didn't take to well. There
> > > may be a few other machines that use the PPC (from IBM
> > > I think). You never hear the term anymore (IBM
> > > compatible) but it's like that. IBM released the
> > > documenation on their PC and other companies could
> > > build their own based on this documentation. If Apple
> > > did this then some other company could supersede them.
> > >
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