[lug] Installing Linux on PowerPC G3

[Nate Duehr]

On Jul 11, 2004, at 2:14 PM, Paul E Condon wrote:

>> And, once I get this taken care of, What Linux distribution would you
>> recommend fora PowerPC?  I was leaning towards yellow dog over other
>> distros that are more focused on x86.
>
> Debian supports PowerPC. I use Debian on all my Linux machines, but 
> have
> no experience with the PowerPC specialization of Debian. I do know that
> Debian makes a serious attempt to keep all supported platforms in sync.
> with one another.

I would just add a "me too!" to this... Debian.

I have x86, Sun Ultra-1, and PPC machines that either have or have had 
Debian on them at one time or another, and they all work, look, and act 
exactly the same for the most part.  The installer sets up Sun's 
bootloader SILO correctly, but if I remember right PPC needed some 
tweaking on a pre-Woody release.

I haven't done an install on PPC since OSX came out... easier just to 
run OSX and ssh to the linux boxen.  ;-)

The debian-ppc mailing list on lists.debian.org is absolutely full of 
class-act top-notch Linux PPC folks, including Ethan Benson who's done 
a TON of work on ybin/yboot and bootloaders for "newworld" G3's and 
G4's -- and is a bloody freakin' genius when it comes to running PPC 
Linux of any sort.  Not to mention a very nice person!

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Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com