Can a PPC Mac boot Linux?

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  1. macuser154, Apr 7, 2009

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    Can I install a PPC version of Linux onto a PPC mac and boot into it without problems?
     
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  2. Queso, Apr 7, 2009

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    Yep. There are builds of both Debian and Ubuntu for PPC. There's also Yellow Dog Linux, which is based on the Fedora distro.

    Be aware though, a lot of the officially supported stuff such as Flash Player only works on the Intel platform. However, as with everything in the OSS world there are alternatives.
     
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