I tried to get yellow dog/Debian PPC/ Knoppix PPC to run on a blue and white G3 one time for a friend. It had a non-standard video card from the factory. I couldn't get X to start at all under yellow dog or Debian PPC. I'm assuming I would have had better luck if we had the stock video card. Knoppix PPC is a different story. I did some research then (this was awhile ago), and found out it was basically one guy who tried to port Knoppix to PPC over the course of a conference. Apparently, some people have gotten it to run on one particular kind of laptop, but that's it. I couldn't get it to do anything. I'll definitely take a trip to Applix, this is the first time I've heard anything about it. In case someone doesn't know, Linus Torvalds uses a dual 2GHz G5 now: http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/0,39023165,39183867,00.htm Michael.
Will Hill wrote: >Yesterday, I spent about 30 minutes at the new Mac/Linux/Sun shop on Florida >Blvd and can recommend it to anyone looking for used hardware. > >They have lots of nice old hardware. G3s, that nice old Mac Cube, Imacs, even >an old Sun workstation were out on display. They also had a token Dell or >two. The macs were running OSX and were impressively snappy for the stated >MHz. The Sun workstation had Solaris 10, which looked very nice. It all was >being sold for $250 or less. > >None of the Macs I saw had Linux on them but there the guy I talked to was >interested in seeing that happen. Debian is supposed to work > >http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ > >There's even supposed to be a knoppix for it: > >http://debian.tu-bs.de/knoppix/powerPC/ > >Has anyone on the list played with Macs? > > >_______________________________________________ >General mailing list >[email protected] >http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > >
