[Cialug] distro for ibook

Afan Pasalic afan at afan.net
Fri Dec 4 09:43:37 CST 2009


I'm also interested to test linux on my iBook (G4, 1.2 GHz, 1.25GB RAM)
Is there Debian LiveCD I can test first? or openSuse LiveCD?

I heard ubuntu doesn't support PPC any more, though this said different?
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/9.10/release/




David Champion wrote:
> According to the matrix on distrowatch, openSUSE also has a PPC version.
>
> -dc
>
> Stuart Thiessen wrote:
>   
>> I thought I saw recently that Fedora has PPC support.
>>
>> Stuart
>>
>> On Dec 4, 2009, at 09:18 , Tim Champion wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> I used to have an iBook that dual booted Yellow Dog Linux and OSX. 
>>>  Looks to me like Yellow Dog is still supporting PPC. Don't know who 
>>> else still has a PPC port. Looks like Ubuntu dropped PPC support 
>>> recently.
>>>
>>> Tim Champion
>>> timchampion at gmail.com <mailto:timchampion at gmail.com>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 9:15 PM, Lewis, Edward D <edlewis2 at dmacc.edu 
>>> <mailto:edlewis2 at dmacc.edu>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Any distro suggestions for my old 500MHZ ibook?
>>>
>>>     Eddie Lewis
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