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The older ppc architecture is CHRP and they are supported by Debian and even Windows NT 4 believe it or not. Yellow Dog, Fedora, SUSE, Mandrake, Gentoo and Arch might support it but I know the first 4 did. The old IBM RS/6000 is a CHRP system. Bryan Roy wrote: | You need to pay close attention to architecture. Not all Linux distros | support all chipsets. Ubuntu works with x386, 64-bit and arm, but not | powerPC or old Motorola chipsets, for example. I think that some older | Ubuntu versions ran on PPC, but I don't think the newest ones do. I | don't think that any supported older Motorola ones. I am not sure what | chip your Mac has because you don't say. | | In order to match the distro with the chipset you need to know what the | Mac uses and find a distro that will support it. This site shows distros | by architecture: http://www.linux.org/dist/ | | I think that Debian is your best bet, considering that it supports the | most architectures. | | Roy | | Linux: Fast, friendly, flexible and ... free! | Support open Source | <,*)}}+< | Only dead fish go with the flow. | Follow LinuxCanuck on Twitter or Identi.ca for the latest news. | | | | 2009/6/6 Jeremy Leonard <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> | | | One of my friends has some old Mac hardware that he is wanting to try | Linux on. I told him that I could probably install Ubuntu for him, | but my experience is primarily with picking up hardware by the piece | and creating my own system. Is there anything I should watch out for | when installing on a Mac system? | | Thanks. | | | | | | - -- A healthy diet includes Linux, Linux and more Linux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoqgckACgkQh+MLjl5SKYSIbgCfdNv0SQw9PWUWuId6vGuOly2/ 5sMAn2lDfy/As3rnNuCpIFKjxvSE1Eqd =4fg7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
