On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Joel Rees <joel.r...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Sorry I missed this. I don't get on the list often enough, lately. > > (But I have this deja vu feeling, too.) > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 3:30 AM, James McKenzie > <jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net> wrote: > > All: > > > > I am looking at installing Linux on a very old piece of hardware. I've > > tried FC12/13/14 but the screen is 'messed up' and it only has 384MB of > > RAM. > > Which model? > > And where did you find F13 or F14 for PPC? > > (I'm sure it isn't 68K because, as far as I know, there is no Fedora > for that. I'm sure it isn't Intel, because the first Intel Macs had > way more RAM than that from the start.) > > Although, 384M is pretty tight if you're wanting to use X11 graphical > desktop. > > I still have F12 on this white iBook G4, sometimes I boot it for > various reasons. > > > Also, I now have a brand new, shiny MacBookPro. Any ideas on what > > to install on it as far as Linux. > > If you are still monitoring the list, you will have noticed that many > people are using Fedora on intel Macs. I don't have an Intel Mac, so I > can't say. There are apparently some (understanding?) issues with EFI, > but it shouldn't be too difficult. > > > I'm trying to stay away from the > > Linux distribution that starts and ends with U as my first experience > > was not pleasant. I would like to stay with the RH family, if possible. > > > > James McKenzie > > Me, too. > > PPC was, for a couple of years, until about a year and a half ago, a > primary target, like x86 and the 64 bit release. > > But, with F12, it has been dropped off the edge of the earth, so to > speak. I suspect that has something to do with Sony's sudden paranoia, > but I suspect it may have more to do with IBM wanting to protect (so > much for them being on our side) their PPC as a "big iron" cpu. Lots > of people not telling us the real reasons for things. > > On the other hand, the feedback level on PPC was kind of sparse. And I > can't claim that I helped much. > > I am playing with Debian on x86 to get ready for the LPIC, and to get > ready to replace Fedora 12 on this iBook. But when I do that, I'll > probably use the Japanese "Vine" derivative of Debian. I have booted > Debian and Vine on it, and it does work, within certain parameters. > LXDE and XFCE (or was it XCFE?) should be much more responsive than > Gnome with the RAM you have. Add RAM if you can get the total over > 512M. It is a bit of a rough ride. > > If you are interested in openBSD, it runs pretty nicely. Steep > learning curve, and you may want to run startx from the keyboard, but > that's something you can probably get used to. (BSD is not Linux, but > it's pretty close, and it does have Linux emulation. Oh, I haven't > tried Linux emulation on PPC, so I shouldn't say that so boldly, > maybe.) > > If enough people with enough time can get together, we should be able > to get the secondary PPC infrastructure up for Fedora and get it up to > sort of the same level as ARM support. I'm still trying to get time to > figure out what I can do there. > > Joel Rees > -- > users mailing list > users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > The last PPC release was http://chi-10g-1-mirror.fastsoft.net/pub/linux/fedora/linux/releases/12/Fedora/ppc/iso/ Fedoraproject.org, on URL http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Arch:PPC, points to the above link
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