M moonaust macrumors newbie Original poster Feb 10, 2005 6 0 Feb 10, 2005 #1 What distro can I run on this laptop???? Thanks.
varmit macrumors 68000 Aug 5, 2003 1,830 0 Feb 10, 2005 #2 moonaust said: What distro can I run on this laptop???? Thanks. Click to expand... I believe you can try either Debian, Mandrake, Yellow Dog, or Gentoo. Those are the only ones that I know that have a distro for PPC.
moonaust said: What distro can I run on this laptop???? Thanks. Click to expand... I believe you can try either Debian, Mandrake, Yellow Dog, or Gentoo. Those are the only ones that I know that have a distro for PPC.
cluthz macrumors 68040 Jun 15, 2004 3,118 4 Norway Feb 10, 2005 #3 From the YDL faq: The following will simply NOT FUNCTION with Yellow Dog Linux WGS 9150, 8150, 6150 PowerBook 5300, 2300, and 1400 Performa 63xx, 62xx, 61xx, 54xx, 53xx, and 52xx IBM RS6000 models: Power series 830, 850, 40P Look here, the 1400 is supported by debian: http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/ Check out www.penguinppc.org for a starting point...
From the YDL faq: The following will simply NOT FUNCTION with Yellow Dog Linux WGS 9150, 8150, 6150 PowerBook 5300, 2300, and 1400 Performa 63xx, 62xx, 61xx, 54xx, 53xx, and 52xx IBM RS6000 models: Power series 830, 850, 40P Look here, the 1400 is supported by debian: http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/ Check out www.penguinppc.org for a starting point...