Re: ibook G3 which linux?

2010-01-22 Thread Clark Martin
On 1/21/10 11:28 PM, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote: openSUSE still is releasing for PowerPC, but I'm not sure on the hardware support of G3-class machines. It won't break anything to try it... :) Actually, I had probably the easiest time installing a Linux with SUSE on a BW G3. But I've just not

Re: ibook G3 which linux?

2010-01-21 Thread Kasey Smith
Try debian, but really OSX is better... On Jan 21, 2010, at 2:53 PM, deftone_75 wrote: I recently bought an ibook G3 clamshell 300, 576ram, 6 gb hard drive. I want to experiment with linux on this machine but not sure which version and where to get it. Any help would be great. Jason -- You

Re: ibook G3 which linux?

2010-01-21 Thread Clark Martin
On 1/21/10 2:53 PM, Kasey Smith wrote: Try debian, but really OSX is better... On Jan 21, 2010, at 2:53 PM, deftone_75 wrote: Yeah, Debian works. I don't know if it was the CD-ROM drive in mine or Debian but I couldn't get it to install from the CD-ROM drive. I ended up using an an

Re: ibook G3 which linux?

2010-01-21 Thread Peter Kim
You should be able to download Yellow Dog fairly easily, which is based on Red Hat. Unfortunately, Yellow Dog dropped mac development a few years ago to focus on Cell processors. I played with their latest on an old iMac, and it seemed decent then. Otherwise, OS X.3 would work well. On Thu,

Re: ibook G3 which linux?

2010-01-21 Thread Alex Smith (K4RNT)
openSUSE still is releasing for PowerPC, but I'm not sure on the hardware support of G3-class machines. It won't break anything to try it... :) http://suse.mirrors.tds.net/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.1/iso/ On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 01:16, Peter Kim pete...@gmail.com wrote: You should be able