I was running a small web site using Apache on an old PowerMac 7500/100 at
my last job. That machine is at least 5 years old, so it does work pretty
well.
I paid a very small amount for the commercial distribution from
www.linuxppc.com
I found it difficult to install. The Mac came with a 500MB SCSI disk, and I
added a 4GB SCSI disk. I installed a minimal MacOS8.5 on the 500MB disk, and
then booted from the LinuxPPC CD. I don't know why but this got it going.
You need to make sure that the Macs are capable of running LinuxPPC - most
PowerPC with PCI bus are.
You can find some information at www.linuxppc.org, but I think there is less
documentation around, and it isn't as well organised as the Intel
distributions. But it does work very well! The version I installed used the
2.2.13 kernel.
I have just downloaded the image for LinuxPPC 2000, now I have to find out
how to burn it onto a bootable CD!
Best of luck
Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adrian Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 5:07 PM
Subject: [newbie] OT -- Linux on Mac -- OT
greetings. i ran across 2 Macs --about 3 years old (didn't check the exact
type or chip)-- along with keyboard, mouse and 17inch monitors for $500.
thing is they are short on software. these were used at the hospital i
work at for the xray dept so there is no software to speak of on them. got
me to thinking, this would be a good deal if i put linux on 'em,
otherwise -- price of mac software -- i wouldn't touch 'em if i had to
purchase software & OS for them.
i did a web search and found a few site regarding linux on mac and found
some stuff, so it does exist.... but i was wondering if any of you had
experience with linux on mac and could give me a general idea how it is.
meaning -- does the OS work about the same? is linux on mac pretty stable
and as advanced as the intel flavor? can anyone recomend any good
distributions? does mandrake happen to have linux for mac??
thank you for any opinions you can render on this subject.
Adrian Smith
'de telepone dude
Telecom Dept.
x 7042
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