[64stang06]

Hey all.

I have an old iBook G3 (600MHz/384MB RAM/40GB HD/8MB VRAM) onto which I would like to install Linux. I've searched the web a bit today and last night and couldn't find much about Linux distros for the PPC that would work on this machine. Ubuntu has a PPC release, the last official one of 6.06 LTS. However, I'd like something a bit more modern if possible.

It's only going to be an email/web browsing/light office work machine so any ideas will be appreciated.

Thanks.

Edit: forgot to mention this does have the original Airport card in it, so anything that will work with that will be a huge plus.

[cgc]

I checked the two lightweight versions of Linux: Puppy Linux and Damn Small Linux and didn't see any mention of PPC support. PenguinPPC mentions a community-supported PPC Ubuntu (I have an old v5.04 version of PPC Ubuntu somewhere laying around). LowEndMac may be of some help though I didn't surf the site (I've referred friends who bought Macs for their kids to this site for help).

[CharlesS]

Wasn't Yellow Dog Linux the one most people used back in the day?

[Cold Warrior]

yeah, I used it on my Wallstreet 292 MHz system back in 2000 for a while.

[64stang06]

I've looked at Yellow Dog Linux and of course, the latest release (6.1) doesn't support this machine. However, I've tried earlier versions and wasn't too impressed.

I know there's also a community supported version of Ubuntu, and I've seen a beta of 9.04 for PPC, but this machine barely meets the RAM requirements (384MB minimum, which I have).

I'm actually taking a look at Fedora 10, which has low requirements and is a fairly recent release.

Thanks for the help though!