Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on June 21, 2006 10:40 PM
I currently use two GNU/Linux distributions on PPC Macs--one G3 Blue & White, one PowerBook G3 Pismo, and one G4. The G3 runs Yellow Dog Linux, and both the PBook Pismo and the G4 run Ubuntu Linux. Both distributions are quite nice and play well with all of my hardware except for the softmodem, which I don't use anyway since I always have had Ethernet available wherever I've gone. For wireless, I just use a PCMCIA card in the Pismo.
I've found that you need plenty of hardware to run any recent version of SuSE Linux, especially DRAM. Not that it isn't a fine distribution--it is, and I've used it myself--but it does tend to prefer fairly potent boxes.
It'll be neat to see how the PPC build matures over time. At some point in the near future, I will probably try out SuSE PPC and see for myself how it stacks up.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on June 21, 2006 10:40 PMI've found that you need plenty of hardware to run any recent version of SuSE Linux, especially DRAM. Not that it isn't a fine distribution--it is, and I've used it myself--but it does tend to prefer fairly potent boxes.
It'll be neat to see how the PPC build matures over time. At some point in the near future, I will probably try out SuSE PPC and see for myself how it stacks up.
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