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At a very basic level; simply running Linux on the PPC architecture,
including Apple [1] Powermacs and so on.
List of Supported Hardware [2]
Has both a 32 and 64bit [3] flavour, and is supported by most popular
distributions - Debian [4], Gentoo [5], Mandrake, Red Hat, SuSE [6] 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 [7] for SuSE [8] Linux - nb SuSE [9] PPC doesn't
seem to be available anymore
* Latest Kernel Source [10]
* Penguin PPC [11]
* YellowDog Linux [12] - a RedHat [13]-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.
* OpenBSD [14]
* for G3/G4 [15]
* or 68k [16]
* NetBSD [17] - the guts of OS X, runs on lots of hardware
* for most PPC machines [18] inc G3s and G4s
* or 68k [19]
* Debian
* for PPC [20]
* or 68k [21]
* Mandrake [22] - PPC only
* Linux on Nubus Macs [23] - the first-gen pre-PCI Powermacs 6100,
7100, 8100 and compatibles, PowerBook [24] 1400, 2300, 5300, Performa
5200, 6200, 6300.
Level of support varies ie 1400 has no Ethernet, PCMCIA
* Gentoo have LiveCDs [25]
LINKS
Adding Wavelan/Airport/Cabletron/Enterasys PCMCIA support to
Linux/PPC [26]
* Mac Linux links [27]
* Mac Unix [28] - list of distros and basic descriptions
* Apple Flavoured Unix [29] - ditto
* Search for all known Linux distros on any platform here [30]
Links:
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[1] http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/?Apple
[2] http://penguinppc.org/projects/hw/
[3] http://penguinppc64.org/
[4] http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/
[5] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?full=1
[6] http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/?SuSE
[7] http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2000/02/olh_ppc_machines.html
[8] http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/?SuSE
[9] http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/?SuSE
[10] http://penguinppc.org/dev/kernel.shtml
[11] http://penguinppc.org/
[12] http://www.yellowdoglinux.com
[13] http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/?RedHat
[14] http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/?OpenBSD
[15] http://www.au.openbsd.org/macppc.html
[16] http://www.au.openbsd.org/mac68k.html
[17] http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/?NetBSD
[18] http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/
[19] http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/
[20] http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/
[21] http://www.debian.org/ports/m68k/
[22] http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/ftp.php3#others
[23] http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/
[24] http://www.melbournewireless.org.au/?PowerBook
[25]
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-ppc.xml?full=1#book_part1_chap2
[26]
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=linux/ppc+pcmcia&hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&selm=linux-ppc.140D21516EC2D3119EE700902787664401439FE2%40hplex1.hpl.hp.com&rnum=6
[27] http://lowendmac.net/linux/index.shtml
[28] http://www.eskimo.com/%7Epristine/unix.html
[29] http://web.espy.org/apple-flavored-unix/
[30] http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html
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