[Tfug] PowerPC Linux

Joshua Bernstein bjosh at engr.arizona.edu
Fri Jun 24 15:04:49 MST 2005


I personally think Yellow Dog is the way to go for PPC. But there is 
also Debian PPC thats pretty slick... I think also that Unbuntu makes a 
PPC disk as well. Unbuntu would be worth checking out if thats the case...

-Josh


Jim Secan wrote:
> My brother is thinking of putting Linux on a G4 machine (not a laptop) he's
> about to abandon for an OS X G5 PowerMac.  He's been interested in Linux
> for some time, but hasn't really done much with it.  I know that there's
> more than just Yellow Dog now available for PowerPC systems, but that's all
> I know.  What distro and what books or other written resources would people
> recommend for his adventure?
> 
> TIA
> Jim
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