Re: Linux builds for PowerPC?

From: Tarun Reddy (treddy_at_tarun.homeip.net)
Date: 10/29/04

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    Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 12:35:54 -0600
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    To install Fedora on PPC, check out

    http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.html

    Tarun

    On Oct 29, 2004, at 11:53 AM, D. D. Brierton wrote:

    > On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 18:33, Adam Boettiger wrote:
    >> Is Linux Fedora compatible with the PowerPC?
    >
    > There are builds of Fedora Core for PPC but I don't know how stable
    > they
    > are. Currently PPC is not an officially supported platform of FC. The
    > package tree for PPC is here:
    >
    > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/
    > ppc/
    >
    > I can't seem to find any ISOs you can dowload though.
    >
    >> I have a G4 Mac Tibook with a 60G drive that I want to dual partition
    >> OSX with Linux. If Fedora is not PowerPC compatible, what are some
    >> other
    >> builds that are?
    >
    > Yellow Dog Linux (you'll need to google that) is a port of Fedora Core
    > to PPC. It seems to be well-regarded. I have recently heard very good
    > reports of Ubuntu (Debian based distribution) on PPC.
    >
    > Here is a review of Ubuntu on Mac:
    >
    > http://www.ppcnerds.org/Article207.html
    >
    > You can download Ubuntu from here:
    >
    > http://www.ubuntulinux.org/download/
    >
    > Best, Darren
    >
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