Re: Earliest MAC supported

From: Shyamal Prasad (shyamalprasad_at_verizon.net)
Date: 06/30/05 

Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 03:14:10 GMT

    "Paolo" == Paolo Peruzzi <paolo@public-files.de> writes:

    Paolo> Which is the earliest MAC that Linux support? Has anyone a
    Paolo> the Mac classic working with linux? Have those old
    Paolo> machines an imagination of ethernet?

I really don't know much about macs (I use one now but am not an old
timer). But you should check the Debian project which supports the 68k
architecture.

The latest release *perhaps* does not support old macs as well as you
might want (I don't really know)

http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/m68k/ch02s01.html.en#id2530475

But if you go back about 3 - 5 years (woody or potato) you should be
able to some pretty old stuff to boot

http://www.mac.linux-m68k.org/docs/

Cheers!
Shyamal

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