Which Linux to use with a Mac?

[JD]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:09 AM, Joel Rees <joel.rees at 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
> <jjmckenzie51 at 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
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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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