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Mandrakelinux 10.1 Out For PPC

Posted by timothy on from the nifty-and-commendable dept.

joestar writes "Less than two weeks after the release of Mandrakelinux 10.1 Official for x86, Mandrakelinux 10.1 for PPC has been released! The interesting news is that this version of Mandrakelinux is now a community-driven project. This means that Mandrakesoft is not anymore behind the PPC port. Hardware requirements and release notes are available online at Mandrakelinux WiKi. Any volunteer for SPARC & Alpha?"

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  1. wwhhyy? by rubee · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If you're going to spend the money for a Mac you owe itself to yourself to use OS X. It has a superior gui (i'm not trolling!), there's absolutely no hardware compatibility program, not to mention you'll have an excuse to strike up a conversation with the hippie girl at the cafe on the powerbook (I go to UC Berkeley:-P). And if you absolutely must use linux, use that other redhat-based OS specifically designed for ppc: Yellowdog. Or NetBSD or OpenBSD.

  2. Opendarwin by Milton+Waddams · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I'm just wondering, is there much of a point running Linux on your Mac? I mean, it'd be much better to run Opendarwin with either Darwinports or Fink on top of it. From there you can install KDE or GNOME plus lots of other stuff.

    Opendarwin would have much better hardware support than Linux on Macs. Has anybody done this? What's the install like? Is there any way to upgrade to new Opendarwin releases?