Linux for 601-based PPC Macs?

Posted by Cliff on Monday July 1, 2002 @02:12PM from the fruity-penguins dept.

jTepp... asks: "The company I work for is upgrading the majority of our systems, and migrating to Linux for most of the machines. I have a lab full of early PPC Macs that I now have been told to Migrate to Linux if possible, or scrap the entire room and start over. Since this would come directly out of my IT budget, and I need to use it for other projects, I'd rather keep the machines. The catch is that most of these units are powered by 601 chips, for which I'm having a difficult time finding a flavor of Linux that will support. I see support for older chips, and newer chips, but not the 601. Anyone know why? Or where I can find support?"

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Re:mklinux by Knife_Edge · 2002-07-01 15:19 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Really? I could never get it to work, and that was not from lack of trying. My advice to anyone trying to get linux running on a nubus machine is to give up and save yourself hours of trouble. I would be pleased to be refuted, but my opinion is that mklinux is mostly a dead project and there is not really much else out there for nubus. For me mklinux was nothing like YDL on non-nubus apple hardware.