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Re: Linux PowerPC on a very old PowerBook G4 1 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM?

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Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> writes:

> On 1/24/2015 6:42 AM, playforvoices wrote:
>
>>> ...
>>>> But after trying Debian and MorphOS I finaly go back to OSX 10.5. Take
>>>> iCab for Internet, Powermail for Mail, LimeChat for IRC and for security
>>>> I use RootKitHunter OSX (scan for security breaches).
>>>
>>> Thanks. I guess I will try all of them to pick the best. Or keep all as
>>> multiple boots and partitions. Heh!
>>
>> I have forget to say something about MintPPC. It's also a good Distro based
>> on Debian 7. On board they have special drivers for PPC Macs and some "Mint
>> Tools". Give them also a try. Please let me know what your final way is. ;)
>>
>
> So, we currently have:
>
> Debian PPC (updated)
> MintPPC (updated)
> MorphOS (Amiga, not Linux; updated)
> Fedora v16-17 (old)

I did see posts from someone who said that he had upgraded a powermac to
fedora 21, but don't know how heroic an effort this was.  I think the
community releases past 17 were for power64 and apparently up to 21
would work on a G5.  There were builds of the packages for power32 or
some such.  Not something I would recommend.

> Yellow Dog Linux (old)

YDL 6.2 was built on Centos5.  You can build the Centos 5 update
packages yourself and update YDL.  Again, not something I would
recommend. 

I looked at some of the web sites in my previous post.  These are not
distributions I know much about.

Crux: http://cruxppc.org/ (community build, may be moribund).

Gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PPC/FAQ (seems to have recent
information). 

Ubuntu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPC (updated, community builds).


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