There are no 'official' PPC builds since 6.10, but there's still a community-supported one for every version up to 10.04; https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCDownloads Hint for the future; the first result if you google "ubuntu ppc" would have taken you right there. On 17 September 2010 09:10, Larry Cafiero <larry.cafiero@gmail.com> wrote:

Rob is right. The Ubuntu wiki is informative and Yellow Dog (now called something else, but I can't remember what) is historically a PowerPC based Linux version.

<soapbox> Unfortunately, a lot of distros have dropped their PowerPC versions, which IMHO is a huge mistake because most of the Apple machines with PPC processors are still running and have very few Linux options.</soapbox>

You can find PPC versions of Debian, Fedora, OpenSUSE and Ubuntu at various places. A good resource is the Oregon State Univeristy Open Source Lab's mirrors at http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/ where you'll find a list of distros but you'll have to go through the lists to find the PPC version of the iso files to burn.

For what it's worth, on the PowerPC machines in my office I'm running Debian on a iMac G3 (my first Linux install four years ago) and just installed Fedora 9 on a iMac G5. Both run great.

Larry Cafiero Redwood Digital Research Felton California home of SFD/Lindependence Felton 2010

PS -- Also, tech questions like this probably shouldn't be on this list, and I apologize for answering the question.

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On 16/09/10 20:58, don warner saklad wrote:

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How do you setup GNU/Linux on an iMac apple computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMac_G4 with Panther OS X 10.3.9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X_10.3 ?...

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It's been a long while, but IIRC you should be able to do it with something like YellowDog Linux (which I believe is a DVD) or an Ubuntu PowerPC version. I gather that PowerPC support has been dropped recently in Ubuntu but you might find that Ubuntu 8.04 PPC would do the job.

When you have a disc (CD or DVD) burnt, restart the Mac with the disc in and hold down the C key. It *should* boot from the CD. I believe you press enter at the prompt (it'll be a black and white screen) and follow it from there (I think with Ubuntu it'll be the text installer). When it's installed it should boot into yaboot (which is like a PPC version of Lilo) and then you can choose to boot into Linux or if you've kept OSX installed alongside Linux you can boot into that too.

This might give you some pointers to get started with:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPC

and

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/downloads/

(the YellowDog page seems to mainly cover installing Linux on the PS3).

Hope this helps. As I say it's been a while (good 4 or 5 years) since I installed it on my iMac G3 so my memory is a bit sketchy.

Rob

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Something WLUG have been running for about the last four years is a monthly "Saturday Workshop" This is similar to an installfest, but much more regular. The first Saturday of each month we set up tables, power and network and people can bring their computers along and help each other solve any problems or just talk about what they've been doing or discovered lately. On 17 September 2010 20:57, Frederic Muller - SFI < fred@softwarefreedomday.org> wrote:

Hi Don,

I didn't want to hijack your other thread so I'm replying here. Some have already made very good recommendations, but having been through the same troubles I remember that I finished my installation at my local GNU/Linux User Group. I am lucky enough to have a strong group nearby and one guy took the machine home and fixed what was not working.

Do you happen to have the same opportunity? SFD is not really a place for GNU/Linux support but if we can get you going I'm sure everyone will be happy.

Thanks.

Fred

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