Linux on PPC

[changomarcelo]

Yesterday I installed Linux in my Mac. I would like to know if anyone else tried something like this to discuss a few things....

[kenny]

I've done it. It's very fast, but not nearly as pretty as X...

[ulrik]

I am running the PPC version of SuSE Linux since I have a Mac

[mrfluffy]

When I've got the entire system I'm thinking of putting linux on my duo (as listed below, when i get a monitor, k/b and mouse)which is 68K rather than PPC so it would be very interesting.

[changomarcelo]

Well, this is what it happend to me:
I installed Mandrake Linux 8 yesterday but it didn´t boot and it didn´t appear any boot menu.
So, I have to open the firmware (CONTROL+Command+O+F) and type some strange commands.
After that, a boot menu appeared. I choose "l" and Linux begun to load. When I reset the Mac, and choose "m" at the boot menu to boot MacOSX, nothing happened. I was taken back again and again to the boot menu. I have to solve it re installing MacOSX.
After that , the boot menu didn´t appeard again.
Any idea? I'm afraid now to type the commands in the firmware because I won´t be able to boot Mac OSX again, but, now I can´t boot linux and I have 6GB of my Hard disk in use with Linux!!!

[kilowatt]

I'm not sure I can answer your question. However, I can tell you who can

http://lists.yellowdoglinux.com/

Sign up or just search it, I'm sure this has been discussed to death there a few times.

I had YellowDogLinux on my Apple G3/266 (beige g3 mini-tower). It ran as fast as OSX on my G4/733. Which just goes to show how pig-ish osx is (although I do prefer osx to linux any day ).

PPC Linux, which I'm guessing is very much like yellow dog (redhat-based).

I would very much like a thread/forum for ppc linux and bsd's.

Good luck, I hope your ppc linux experiance is as good or better than mine was.

[Lazarus18]

Ah yes, the bloatedness of OS X. Hopefully Apple will continue to put it through some slimming down workouts.

However, this is something I've been curious about for awhile. It seems that Linux on PPC and Linux on x86 would be a pretty good comparison of speeds. Better than the old Photoshop example we have been beaten over the head with.

It seems to me that if PPC is as fast as we think it is at lower MHz Linux running on both PPC and x86 would be the best way to compare the two. Anyone seen this done?

[FrgMstr]

Yeah a kernel compile or gimp comparison would be good.