On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:40:51 -0700 (PDT) scurock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Apple PowerMac G4 with 40G hard drive and 1 G memory. I > would like to know whether I can install GOS on it. The CPU is powerpc > based. This has come up a few times before. There is not currently a PPC version of gOS: it runs only on machines with an x86 architecture. I say "currently" because the Linux distribution gOS is built upon (Ubuntu) has some unofficial PPC builds, and it is not clear whether any of these will be made as a base to build an unofficial gOS PPC version. Currently, Ubuntu has a LTS (Long Term Support) version in Ubuntu 8.04 without a PPC version but the previous LTS version, (Ubuntu 6.06) did have official support and had an official PPC version. As I have said before, IMHO, gOS is Ubuntu with impressive eye candy, so if you can bear the GNOME interface, then an outdated version of Ubuntu or the current version of Debian (which does have an up-to-date PPC version) but the full range of PPC Linux distributions is at: http://penguinppc.org/about/distributions.php This site is worth investigating for all readers interested in Linux on the PowerPC architecture as its the home of the Linux PowerPC Project. HTH -- Graham Todd --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gOS Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/goslinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
