Is there a Knoppix equivelent for PowerPC (Mac)?

Bill Freeman f at ke1g.mv.com
Wed Aug 11 13:42:01 EDT 2004


	Any Linux on Mac folks out there?

	I've come into a free old Mac (Performa 6290CD).  I'm thinking
that I could get my lady friend (a Mac person) to accept it to live at
her house if it mostly remains a Mac.  If I can run a few apps like
xfig and LyX on it, I can get work done when I'm visiting (I've even
got a SCSI external ZIP drive to allow easier large file transport
that the native floppy).

	I suppose that there might be some way to dual boot it.  The
quaint 1.2Gb hard drive might strain a bit, however.  I'm presuming
that the HD is SCSI rather than IDE, so the several spare larger
drives that I have wouldn't apply.  The thing is so old, however, that
if I have to spend anything at all upgrading it, it's not worth it.
(Two web sites estimate the street price as $25.  I'm hoping some of
my old 72 pin SIMMs will work as well, since performance might be tough
in the original 8MB.  Though my first PC Linux box had 4MB back in kernel
0.97 days.)

	Anyway, I'm thinking, if there's something like Knoppix but for
a power Mac, I might be happy enough.

	Thoughts?

							Bill




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