glassJAw Posted October 6, 2007 Share Posted October 6, 2007 What would be the best distro for this system. Things it needs to be... Easy to use as the people who are going to be using it will not know Linux Must be able to have Polish language package Have some kind of music burning program that is easy to use. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65542-linux-distribution-for-a-powermac-g4/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 http://distrowatch.com/search.php?architecture=powerpc No one can tell you what you need as only you know your requirements. Things that don't work natively on PPC Linux is Flash browser support because Adobe/Macromedia never compiled a PPC version. Some applications that work on x86 Linux aren't yet ported or will never be ported to PPC. Certain codecs aren't distributed on some distributions due to copyright issues. I've tried Ubuntu PPC and openSUSE PPC. No show stoppers as far as fhardware to run properly. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65542-linux-distribution-for-a-powermac-g4/#findComment-498878 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porto Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 I had Ubuntu for a while installed on my PowerBook G4. Worked like a charm . Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65542-linux-distribution-for-a-powermac-g4/#findComment-498888 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 I had it on a G3 and it ran nicely. Then I switched back to OS X, because it just wasn't as satisfying. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65542-linux-distribution-for-a-powermac-g4/#findComment-498920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=66367 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=65723 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/65542-linux-distribution-for-a-powermac-g4/#findComment-499007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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