On Monday 18 October 2004 15:25, Thomas Carlson wrote: Hi Tom.
> I have been using Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 on my old Powermac 9500 for > quite a while. Except for problems with serial-port printing, I have > been happy with it. Now, with the new 4.0 release, YDL has ceased to > "officially" support pre-G3 machines. This says to me, "You're on your > own, Jack." Is Debian now a better choice for those of us who are > still using BootX to dual-boot Linux on old world machines? On my Powermac 9500, I use Debian Sarge. Did not try dual boot, I don't like that old MacOS. > I am using the kernel argument: video=atyfb:vmode:13,cmode:32 > successfully with YDL and have X up and running just fine. Will that > work for Debian, as well? Did not try that. I played around with X but did not find a valid configuration. On my G3 blue and white it was quite easy, I have MacOS X and Debian (both in graphics mode) up and running. My PPC 9500 has become a fine home intranet database and web server. > Any advice is welcome. > > Tom Hartwig
