Well, I got a Mac. Now what? PPC Linux?

[MercenaryForHire]

Now if that won't bring in the trollers/neffers, I don't know what will.

Why? It was free.

Powermac 6500/300. Since MacOS 8.6 manages to defy physics by both sucking and blowing, I'd like to pop something else onto this machine. Rather than shell out money to the Evil Overlord Jobs, I'm looking for a PPC Linux distro. So far, Yellow Dog Linux seems to be the only option.

Experiences? Opinions? Flames? Nefs?

- M4H

 

[Heisenberg]

I'd use Gentoo linux on it.

 

[crumpet19]

Who cares what distro is on it? Porn looks the same regardless.

 

[BillGates]

So does this mean you're going to sell the Civic and buy a VW Beetle now?

That's funny SHlT, I never thought of that relationship before, but it's totally true. Kinda like lesbians and Saturns.

 

[wedi42]

will gentoo work on the pre g3 systems?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: BillGates

So does this mean you're going to sell the Civic and buy a VW Beetle now?

That's funny SHlT, I never thought of that relationship before, but it's totally true. Kinda like lesbians and Saturns.

No, no, it's RAV4s. Gotta have room in the back for the camping gear, fly fishing tacklebox, and of course, a pair of Labrador Retrievers.

- M4H

 

[Heisenberg]

Originally posted by: johngute
will gentoo work on the pre g3 systems?

The site says it works on generic PPC, G3 and G4 powered systems. So I assume so.

 

[Platypus]

I put debian on one. OSX has X11 directly from apple and fink. You get pretty much FreeBSD with the capabilities of Debian's package manager.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: johngute
will gentoo work on the pre g3 systems?

I need some kind of whacked bootloader. Both YDL and Gentoo seem to say that I need to keep the MacOS partition around if I'm on OldWorld Mac, which this box is. Any way around that?

Even OS9 would be an improvement, but again, no feeding the Evil Empire is allowed.

- M4H

 

[Sunner]

Im a Gentoo man, but in this case, I'd stay away from it, compiling stuff will take forever on that boxm it's painful enough on my P3-866 at work, and that box is still considderably faster than your Mac.

OpenBSD, or Debian, those would be my choices.

 

[Kadarin]

Mandrake?

"Supported processors: G3 and G4 on iMac, as well as "old-world" machines with the 604 processor as long as they have PCI (no nubus)."

 

[oniq]

If you don't want to wait for compiles, I'd go with Debian PPC. I ran it on my 400mhz iMac and it wasn't too bad. I run Gentoo on my iBook 600mhz and I can't complain about the compiles. They're quick enough that things don't take half a day

 

[EyeMWing]

You have PM, and go for Debian PPC. It's cool.

 

[RossMAN]

Yellow Dog Linux

 

[MrYogi]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Mandrake?

"Supported processors: G3 and G4 on iMac, as well as "old-world" machines with the 604 processor as long as they have PCI (no nubus)."

go with mandrake. it is good

 

[BD231]

I'd go with emmmmmmmm........ Trash Can.

 

[ThePresence]

Congrats! Now you can start seeing what computers were meant to be.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: ThePresence
Congrats! Now you can start seeing what computers were meant to be.

Crap?

- M4H

 

[ThePresence]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: ThePresence
Congrats! Now you can start seeing what computers were meant to be.

Crap?

- M4H

All I read was that you got a Mac. I see now that you got one from last century. Yeah, that'll probably suck. But my G4 definitely doesn't.

 

[ChefJoe]

I'm still stuck in the world of Windows on my PCs, but recently was given the task of updating a G3 and a G4 in our lab with OS X. I also took the opportunity to get a couple logitech MX300s for them. OS X plus a 2 button scroll mouse makes them really nice machines. I'm liking the autohide taskbar with genie effect, the near-seamless ability to connect to windows shares, and the linux based user/permissions on the directories by default.

 

[mwtgg]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Now if that won't bring in the trollers/neffers, I don't know what will.

Why? It was free.

Powermac 6500/300. Since MacOS 8.6 manages to defy physics by both sucking and blowing, I'd like to pop something else onto this machine. Rather than shell out money to the Evil Overlord Jobs, I'm looking for a PPC Linux distro. So far, Yellow Dog Linux seems to be the only option.

Experiences? Opinions? Flames? Nefs?

- M4H

Since I love FreeBSD soooo much (running on a lovely Pentium 200Mhz), I would suggest something of the BSD (*nix) variety but, unfortunately, you can not run FreeBSD on ppc, so, I would go with Debian. BTW, I applaud your decision to resist the EVIL MacOSEmpire, when you get Linux running, your rewards will be great!

John

P.S. - PLEASE stay away from Mandrake, I know my other box is 200Mhz, but Mandrake chugged on it, FreeBSD runs KDE fine; just something to keep in mind with old systems. Besides, Mandrake is the XP of Linux -- bloated.