[GRLUG] on a PowerBook G4

[Don Ellis]

Yellow Dog is still around, with yet another new name, published at
http://www.ydl.net/

I've tried it from time to time, and their main focus is on Power
Architecture. This is a CentOS based distro, so it might be fun to
dual boot into YD and Debian and see which one feels better.

--Don Ellis


On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 7:17 AM, Roger Roelofs <roger.roelofs at gmail.com> wrote:
> The distro everyone was using on PPC macs was yellow dog. Haven't used
> it in years.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 11, 2012, at 7:03, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:
>
>> A friend was recently given a PowerBook G4.  Firefox is at 3.6 on there, and Safari is equally old.  We can't update the OS both technologically and financially, so I'm looking to put Linux on there.
>>
>> I know practically nothing about PowerBooks.  I know it's old, and I don't think it has an intel proc.  I'm guessing I'll need a light desktop like XFCE.
>>
>> What are my options for distro?  I suspect Debian, but that's always been a painful process for me.  Would xubuntu be light enough?  Or is the cruft going to bog it down?
>>
>> I don't necessarily want to get too crazy on distro, I'd like to be relatively familiar with it.  I know debian based systems pretty well, and redhat based systems, and I know Arch pretty well.
>>
>> topher
>>

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