No, most of the popular distros were available on PPC. I hadn't seen the $100 price on YDL - every copy I ever got was either free or for cost of shipping (when they sent free samples for ITEC Expo, they paid the shipping), and I've downloaded YDL from time to time. Of course, if you do want to buy a support agreement, or have them build your data center for you, the cost would be a bit more, but even then, there are different pricing tiers, so you could as much or as little as you want to (to them - you also have to consider what you pay the local help who do the installation/configuration). So, installing Linux under common license provisions is not a restriction for these machines. Again, I will encourage accepting only the higher-end models (Firewire).
--Don Ellis On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:06 AM, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > > That's tricky. What OS do you plan to use for the G3s (if you do > choose to accept)? > > G3 = PowerPC chip. As far as I know, Yellow Dog is the only Linux > distro which will run on PowerPC Macs. Don't know how it works now, > but in the past Yellow Dog came with a pretty high price tag @ $100+ > per license. Still open source but no GPL. Perhaps not the best > investment for ByteWorks. > > Best, > Matt Duchek > > On Jan 7, 12:21 pm, "Robert Citek" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > ByteWorks has the opportunity to acquire 20-30 G3 iMacs. I don't know > > the specifics (e.g. cpu, ram, hdd, etc.) but apparently they all work. > > Give than these are all-in-one models, ByteWorks is hesitant to take > > them in because if they are too low-end or they don't work, then they > > would cost time, money, and effort to dispose of. > > > > Does anyone here know of an organization that might be interested in > > putting them to re-use? > > > > Regards, > > - Robert > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
