PowerPC Recommendations

[Technomage Hawke]

I have had some experience with linux on PPC. just about all of them use the dubs subsystem and depending on your specific logic board, may cause the system to become unresponsive.

that aside, the best distribution is debian or ubuntu (though debian may have better application support). Opensuse also makes a PPC version of their distribution. However, I have never tried an rpm based distribution.

one of the items to know is that you may have to change the boot parameters in your firmware in order to automatically boot your installed systemm. I may be able to offer some assistance, but I need someone with a pair of eyes to tell me what is happening. btw, orca and speech-dispatcher will work in PPC versions, but it takes a little tweaking.

let me know if you need some help.

-Eric
623-399-5635
On Jul 20, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Nathan England wrote:

> Hello Hello,
> 
> Someone just gave me 4 G3/G4 iMac's with OS 9 on them. I am not sure of the specs yet, but I am interested to know if anyone has any experience with Linux on these bad boys? I ran edUbuntu on a G3 years ago and it was awful... I'm hoping the newer versions are better. Any thoughts?
> 
> Nathan
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