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At a very basic level; simply running Linux on the PPC architecture, including Apple Powermacs and so on.
List of Supported HardwareHas 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
- Supported machines for SuSE Linux - nb SuSE PPC doesn't seem to be available anymore
- 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
- for most PPC machines inc G3s and G4s
- or 68k
- Mandrake - PPC only
- Linux on Nubus Macs - the first-gen pre-PCI Powermacs 6100, 7100, 8100 and compatibles, PowerBook 1400, 2300, 5300, Performa 5200, 6200, 6300.
- Gentoo have LiveCDs
Links
Adding Wavelan/Airport/Cabletron/Enterasys PCMCIA support to Linux/PPC- Mac Linux links
- Mac Unix - list of distros and basic descriptions
- Apple Flavoured Unix - ditto
- Search for all known Linux distros on any platform here
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