Linux Distributions for Powerbooks?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday July 14, 2004 @03:18AM from the penguins-and-apples dept.

sol2k asks: "I just got myself a G4 Powerbook 12' and I am still amazed at the thing. Mac OS X is beatiful and sometimes even too intuitive for someone crossing from the Windows world. I had some nice experiences with Linux on Intel machines but would love to try out a Linux on the Powerbook and make use of the great hardware. Here's a simple question: What are my options? I know about Yellow Dog (old and doesn't seemt to be updated often), Debian/PPC (a bit too much time to set up than what I have available) and Mandrake (9.1 - that's really old). What Linux adventures have you had on your Mac?"

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Gentoo by pardey · 2004-07-14 03:20 · Score: 3, Insightful

Gentoo runs on PPCs, and is (so I hear) less trouble to set up than Debian. Worth looking at, anyways.

Cheers.
YDL by Johnny+Mnemonic · 2004-07-14 03:29 · Score: 3, Insightful

How do you classify Yellow Dog Linux as 'old'? They update it regularly, in my experience--I guess you can't get nightly builds, or even once a month; but it's not that far behind.

And it's probably your best bet. Unless you want to hack on Darwin, which gets rid of the non-free parts of OS X.

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