Trying to find the ideal distro

Jguy101 · 11-29-2005, 11:47 PM

Lately, I've been considering getting an old Clamshell iBook G3, like the ones in my sig. MEPIS looks nice, but isn't available for PowerPC arch.

So: anyone know of a Linux distro that is available for PowerPC architecture, is easy-to-use, has a nice installer, and would work well on a hardware configuration similar to the following?

300-400 MHz Motorola PowerPC G3
128 MB RAM
6 GB hard drive

And I'd prefer it if it came with KDE, although Gnome might do.

By the way, I'm not planning on going with Ubuntu or Kubuntu; that installer is downright ugly. :P

BittaBrotha · 11-30-2005, 12:05 AM

You may want to take a look at YellowDog . It's an original Linux for ppc.

I've never tried it or seen it in action but it does come with KDE.

Here's a long list of PPC versions of linux which should use KDE.

proliant_fan · 04-02-2006, 11:54 AM

Dont most of the biggies like RedHat and SuSe have PPC Versions?

Randux · 04-02-2006, 12:37 PM

FreeBSD and the BSD family might be nice