[juneau-lug] Re: Linux on a Mac Laptop

  • From: Chris Ruschmann <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2007 09:10:46 -0800

I use the PPC version of Ubuntu 7 on my PS3. It's nice and fast, you 
might want to give it a try.
I know the live cd part of it got faster.

Also I think fedora 7 has live CD's for PPC now. You can check them out.

Newer the distro the bettter ;)

Jamie wrote:
> I've got a borrowed Power PC 750 (400 MHz, 128M) for the summer and of 
> course would like to try to run linux on it.  It has OS X 10.3 on it and 
> lots of software that I don't want to lose so I'm thinking live cd or 
> partition & dual boot.
>
> I tried the old Ubuntu 5.1 live cd for mac that Jake handed out a long 
> time ago.  It does boot, but X11 is so slow its unusable.  The command 
> shell console is slow too, but it works.  Haven't found the HPFS support 
> yet and can't mount the hard drive.
>
> What are my options?  Debian?  Yellow Dog?  A different live cd?  Has 
> anyone done this on an older PPC?  Any suggestions?
>
> TIA.
> -Jamie
>
>
>   

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