Thanks Roy, Well Debian didn't do any better than Fedora. I retried with the Ubuntu Linux Live CD to be sure it wasn't the DVD drive. Nope it still booted. I'm downloading Yellow Dog now to give it a try. I wonder why Adobe doesn't want to issue stuff for the Linux Power PC platform? Maybe if enough people pay for Yellow Dog or another Power PC distro, Adobe and others will wake up to us.
Yeah, not working has its good points, I get to ask a neighbor for a ride to the once-a-month sale. I bought a few Gateways for $5.00 each, they needed RAM and hard drive installed. Others grabbed the $5.00 Dells. I know my way around repairing and upgrading, and this was my first Mac. They had others with an OS installed for less than $90.00, both Macs and PCs. Bet you lived in Reno or could visit, I have the next 3 dates if you're coming this way. I hope I can find a Debian-based Power PC Linux that will work... Joan --- 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, 2:25 PM It sounds like you found a bargain. You have a good attitude about there being a reward for those who are patient. Many new Linux users are frustrated with the differences and give up before getting to the reward part, which is too bad for them. 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: Sunday, October 12, 2008 1:02:58 PM Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Mac G4 Linux Live CDs 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 <linuxcanuck@ yahoo.ca> wrote: From: Linux Canuck <linuxcanuck@ yahoo.ca> Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Mac G4 Linux Live CDs To: LINUX_Newbies@ yahoogroups. com 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] l .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? 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