Hi i'm searching for a distribution to install on 4 imac 333 mhz, 32 - 64 ram, cd rom and 4 gigas hard disc. Someone can help me about the distribution i need... i install linux on pc but i don't have idea for linux for mac...

Tanks

Ubuntu has a PPC build that I imagine would work on those systems, as does gentoo.

i use ubuntu, but the memory on the imacs is very low for this distribution. You know about another one?

Have you tried yellow dog linux? It's specifically targeted at PPC systems.

i see the yellow dog distribution, but the minimal machine needs 128 megas of ram, but i just have 32 or 64 megas. is the same whit ubuntu. You know something about mandrake 9.1 ppc?

Juan Carlos

I run the same hardware, using Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog), but I added some memory. I think it's up to 128 megs. It's still pretty slow. I was just looking on the Ubuntu PPC forum (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=103273) People are saying that XFCE4 desktop will run much faster than Gnome. Apparently you can just install it with the Synaptic package manager and select it at startup. IFRC, I tried this with 4.10 and couldn't get it to work; maybe you have a later version?

I used to have a package-by-package installation guide for a light weight version of Ubuntu but I can't find it. If you know what packages you want, you can run a basic install and just add the packages you need, using apt-get. You could probably do the same thing with Debian Sarge. The complete distro is really too much for these old computers. With 64 megs, you need a really slim installation.

Does anyone know of something about the size of Damn Small Linux in a PPC version? That's really what we need.

Paul in Seattle

Yes i just need a browser, a text editor and samba... thats all i need for those computers. So i believe a small distribution with internet update would be the perfect solution. I read something about debian for PPC. Someone read anything about it?

Juan Carlos Salas
Costa Rica

Hi i see info about yellow dog 3.0 and ubuntu 4.10, someone have any information about those distributions?

Basically most major distros have PPC versions (which will support your iMac): Debian, Fedora Core, Gentoo, Mandriva, OpenSuse, Ubuntu, Yellow Dog, and others. If you have 32 or 64 MiB of RAM you might not want to run a desktop environment or something like that.

P.S. the current version of Yellow Dog is 4.0.1, not 3.0

yes i know the current version of yellow dog is the 4.0.1, but i ask for 3.0 because my configuration is low memory, so i tink the 3.0 will work with 32 or 64 megas.

Juan Carlos
Costa Rica