Is there a Knoppix equivelent for PowerPC (Mac)?

[Tom Buskey]

I've used gentoo live CD on an iBook.  Debian might also have something. 
Either one would be worth checking out if you want a full install.

Yellow Dog is a mac only dist. worth looking at.

Mandrake has a PPC version and may also have a live CD for the PPC
(MandrakeMove).

MOL lets you run MacOS within Linux on mac PPC similar to VMware (only
free).  You might not need dual boot with that setup.

I'd imagine most other linux on non-i386 will be subpar compared to the
i386 version.  That's been my experience with sparc and mac 68k.

NetBSD and OpenBSD on non-i386 are hard to tell apart from the i386
version once you get them booted. For example sparcs alow serial consoles
from the bios and mac 68k needs a boot loader under a small MacOS
partition.

> 	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?

An external SCSI drive would work well to increase space....