Thanks, Well Fedora reboots after install with only a smiley face and "?" flashing in the middle of the screen. Probably the ATI video card, at least OpenSuse installed, booted, but couldn't find the Internet until I rebooted, and said no updates available finally.
Now to see if this is an easy fix, if not on to try the Debian PPC DVD. Maybe with Apple dropping support for the new OS X from Mac non-Intel CPUs will help Linux? I can only hope some programmers are given some of these Macs to practice on, mine cost me only $15.00 at a college surplus sale. Learning Linux, like anything else is rewarding in the end. Joan in Reno --- On Sun, 10/12/08, Linux Canuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Linux Canuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Mac G4 Linux Live CDs To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 5:51 AM There are twelve PPC distros listed on www.linux.org' s page. A few are only for that platform. In addition to the ones mentioned below are Mandriva, Debian, Gentoo, MkLinux, Yellow Dog, ELinOS, SourceMage, PLD, and Intrinsyc. Go to: http://www.linux. org/dist/ list.html and input PPC in the platform box. You can also sort Distrowatch by architecture and it has many more listed such as CentOS, Crux, Rock, Slackintosh, T2 SDE and Vine. So there is quite a bit of choice. As for how good they are... Roy Linux: Fast, friendly, flexible and .... free! Support Open source. <*,)}}+< Only dead fish go with the flow! ----- Original Message ---- From: Joan Leach <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .net> To: linux_newbies@ yahoogroups. com Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 9:06:03 PM Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Mac G4 Linux Live CDs Hi Everyone, I came across one of these towers with 384 RAM, now it has 1 gig RAM that I knew to be either PC100 or PC133 depending on what was needed. The CPU is 450 MHz, the 20 gig HD no longer booted OS X, so I found the Ubuntu 6.06 Live CD to test it out. Now I'm installing the latest OpenSuse PowerPC DVD. Unfortunatedly, there were no updates, or did I burn the wrong iso file? I have the latest Fedora PPC to try on another hard drive, since I have very little Mac software I wonder if I'll go that route. But it is disappointing there are so few Live or install distros for this plateform. Anybody have some favorites links for new MacPPC Linux users? Or other info? Thanks, Joan in Reno [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ____________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _________ _ Connect with friends from any web browser - no download required. Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger for the Web BETA at http://ca.messenger .yahoo.com/ webmessengerprom o.php [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
