boffinboy
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Post by boffinboy on Mar 17, 2009 14:19:58 GMT
Hi All
My wife has a G3 iBook and it is not happy even with 512 MB ram.
Tried to put openSUSE on it last night but didn't boot because I hadn't got my head around the niceties of yaboot. Thinking you see that it would be nice to have a current distro, as powerpc is being dropped by likes of Ubuntu. (Might also put it on tired old PCs I get asked if I can do anything with... that way learning how to work with one I might get somewhere with the other).
Well, just wanted to rejuvenate a tired mac. I wondered if anyone had positive experiences of getting linux on an old mac.
Cheers
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Post by CyberChimp on Mar 17, 2009 15:15:20 GMT
As far as I'm aware, Canonical stopped producing the 'official' ports of Ubuntu to PPC platform after 6.10, but community produced disc images of more recent versions are still available. The directory page for Ubuntu ports is: cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/The Long Term Service release version 8.04 might be worth a look - especially if you could be installing Ubuntu on several different machines: cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/8.04.1/release/If the memory and graphics processing power in your iBook or older PCs make them a bit too slow with Ubuntu then Xubuntu might run better as it generally requires less resources ( www.xubuntu.org). Yellow Dog Linux might be worth looking into for the iBook if you'd prefer something based around Red Hat Linux rather than Debian. I haven't used Yellow Dog for a while now though so not sure how much it's still supporting Apple manufactured machines (I think their main focus had shifted towards PlayStation 3s).
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