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northfool
04-09-2003, 02:42 PM
I have an Apple G3 with OS/8 installed. What, if any, Linux distribution would be best for me?
Thanks
JamminJoeyB
04-09-2003, 02:55 PM
Not too familar with the PPC distros, but I think Mandrake makes a PPC distro.

Also Yello Dog.
DMR
04-09-2003, 02:57 PM
We have a Mac-specific forum, so I'm moving this there.
:)
MorphiusFaydal
04-09-2003, 02:59 PM
Yellow Dog 2.3 (http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=12)
Mandrake 8.2 (http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=29)
Gentoo 1.2 (http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=45)
Debian 3.0r1 (http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=4)
LinuxPPC 2000 Q4 (http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=8)
NetBSD 1.6 (http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=16)
Darwin 6.02 (http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=60)
GNU-Darwin Beta 2.3 (http://www.linuxiso.org/distro.php?distro=61)

Apple makes Darwin, so you might feel at home withi it, but ive never used it.


all of these are links to the linuxiso.org download page for all of these. just click on the distro to see info about it and where to d/l it.
DMR
04-09-2003, 03:01 PM
BTW- here's a link to a download site for some of the various Linux distros:

http://www.linuxiso.org/finddistro.php

Scroll to the bottom of the page and choose Sorting Method->By Architecture->PPC
MorphiusFaydal
04-09-2003, 03:01 PM
her DMR, thats what i used to find all the ppc-architechur linux distros. :)
DMR
04-09-2003, 03:05 PM
Originally posted by MorphiusFaydal
her DMR, thats what i used to find all the ppc-architechur linux distros. :) Yeah, linuxiso.org is a great central repository for distro downloads. It's also got good background info on verifying iso downloads, burning iso image to CD, etc.

:)