** Simon Royal simonroyal@live.co.uk [2010-05-28 22:23]:
Does anyone have any experience with Linux on PowerPC Macs.
Im a long term Mac user and have an iBook G3 which might not be the fastest machine in the world - a 500Mhz G3 with 640MB RAM, but compared to my ThinkPad which is a 300Mhz P2 with 296MB RAM it is a speed demon.
I know officially Ubuntu stopped PPC ports in version 7, but community ports are still going strong. There is a PowerPC version of 10.04 although I havent tried it yet. I did try version 5 a while ago and it was pretty good.
I also know there is no official support for Flash - although some claim to have it working and a lot of software that is for Ubuntu will only work with x86 devices and not PPC.
PowerPC Linux is very thin on the ground, Ubuntu and Xubuntu seemingly the biggest two. Yellow Dog is another and there might be a Suse or Mandriva if I remember correctly.
Is it worth pursuing? Is PPC Linux any good? Or should I ditch my iBook and my ThinkPad and get faster P2 or P3 machine.
In the mean time I am going to try Ubuntu 10.04 for PowerPC on my iBook.
Any help and advice would be appreciated.
** end quote [Simon Royal]
I've not tried putting a PPC Linux on any of my Macs yet, but why not take a look at the Debian port:
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/powerpc/iso-cd/
I have a definate Debian/Ubuntu bias, based on my personal experience and history, but I intend to take a look at Debian when I finally get my G4 up and running - although the primary reason for having it is to finally take a look at OSX. I just need to get some memory and drives in it and I can see about getting it working.