shootingfreak101 Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 hey guys, I am thinking about buying an ibook g3 from someone in my local craigslist for $100. everything is working. specs 500 mhz g3 384 mb ram 10 gig hard drive. I will mainly use for internet browsing. I was wanting to load linux onto it as it tends to run much faster on older hardware than native OSs. I know that ubuntu 6.06 and 6.10 support the ppc chips. Do you guys know of any other good linux distros that support the g3 ppc chip. I am looking for one with isn't to graphically basic but around the same graphic qualities of ubuntu 6.10 and older versions of open SUSE or dreamlinux. Thanks.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankOS_Scripting Posted July 25, 2008 Share Posted July 25, 2008 Fedora core 8 had this feature PPC cpu. openSUSE 10.3 if i'm not wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InorganicMatter Posted July 26, 2008 Share Posted July 26, 2008 SUSE and Fedora are "the" PPC distros. Also see: http://penguinppc.org/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingfreak101 Posted July 27, 2008 Author Share Posted July 27, 2008 Thanks, i found penguin ppc, how does the graphics experience of penguin compare to the fedora and suse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InorganicMatter Posted July 27, 2008 Share Posted July 27, 2008 Thanks, i found penguin ppc, how does the graphics experience of penguin compare to the fedora and suse? I don't know, I'm fortunate enough to never have endured a PPC system. Of course, it depends on the video card and not the processor, but I'm not sure what kind of video cards the old G3 systems had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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