LinuxPPC
At a very basic level; simply running Linux on the PPC architecture, including Apple Powermacs and so on.
List of Supported Hardware
Has both a 32 and
64bit flavour, and is supported by most popular distributions -
Debian,
Gentoo, Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE to name a few).
' nb couldn't find project page for Mandrake PPC, link below to ISOs
Reports are good for most wireless cards, as most i386 things can be tinkered with to work on PPC.
Distros
YellowDog Linux - a RedHat-like PPC port with a better(?) package manager, one of the most popular and better supported distros. Preliminary support for G5s. PPC only, no 68k version. Available as a boxed set with manual or as ISOs.
- NetBSD - the guts of OS X, runs on lots of hardware
Linux on Nubus Macs - the first-gen pre-PCI Powermacs 6100, 7100, 8100 and compatibles, PowerBook 1400, 2300, 5300, Performa 5200, 6200, 6300.
Level of support varies ie 1400 has no Ethernet, PCMCIA
Links
Adding Wavelan/Airport/Cabletron/Enterasys PCMCIA support to Linux/PPC
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