Is there a Knoppix equivelent for PowerPC (Mac)?

Fred puissante at lrc.puissante.com
Thu Aug 12 00:34:00 EDT 2004


Check out this site:

http://www.linuxiso.org

There are some distros for the Power PC there.

-Fred


On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 14:19, Tom Buskey wrote:
> 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....
> 
> 
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