[plug] Linux on Power PC (chip) Mac computers

Pavel Volský pavel.volsky at gmail.com
Fri Oct 4 06:23:39 UTC 2013


Hi, there are many options of Linux of BDS systems.
Use what you like.
I would recommend Ubuntu or Debian as you'll get the support from the
biggest community.

http://distrowatch.com/search.php?architecture=powerpc#distrosearch

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads/
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/12.04.3/release/

Pavel


On 4 October 2013 09:33, William Kenworthy <billk at iinet.net.au> wrote:

> On 04/10/13 09:19, Gene wrote:
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I have a Mac Power Macintosh (tower) with the Power PC (not newer Intel)
> > chip, and would greatly appreciate any advice or leads to resources for
> > getting this machine converted from OS X 10.3 to any flavour of Linux.
> >
> > I've got Mint and Ubuntu disks but they are suitable for Intel only
> > apparently.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Gene
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> I think gentoo has a flavour for that modl ...
>
> BillK
>
>
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