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Terra Soft Reveals Linux/PPC Hardware Solution

Posted by pudge on from the only-if-i-can-get-it-in-teal-or-raspberry dept.

Gentu writes "OSNews features an article revealing a new product from Terra Soft, makers of the popular PPC Linux distribution Yellow Dog Linux, which effectively enables YDL to run on its own platform. Terra Soft is offering a motherboard and a complete PC based on the 600MHz G3 (G4 is also planned). This is of course still PPC, but it ain't a Mac. However, the article hints that it might be technically possible to run Mac OS and Mac OS X via Mac-On-Linux." Prices start at about $500, with 1U rackmounts starting at $870.

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  1. Ok, so what? by Kenja · · Score: 1, Flamebait
    So what advantage does this board have over, say, a dual Athlon MB? Why go through the trouble to use an older PPC based system if you're just going to end up running Linux on it? If this could run OS X as well that would be one thing. But everyone knows how strict Apple is when it comes to that.

    So I guess I just dont get it. Why is this worth the effort.

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