PowerPC

Richard J Herrem plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Mon, 8 Apr 2002 18:57:24 -0700


This page represents the efforts of the IBM PowerPC Linux team, as well
as those from the community of PowerPC Linux developers. It is their goal
to improve, and extend Linux for Embedded, 32bit and 64 bit PowerPC
Microprocessors.

http://www-124.ibm.com/developerworks/oss/linux/projects/ppc/
 

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002 12:56:04 -0700 Trent Shipley <tcshipley@earthlink.net>
writes:
> 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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