“My first experience with Linux on a PPC machine was Pegasos PPC
and Debian. Last weekend I upgraded my Cube G4 450 Mhz and with a
blazingly fast 120 GB 7200 RPM WD drive (for just $58!) to replace
the default (and extremely slow) 20 GB Maxtor IDE drive. In this
vast drive space, there is enough room for more than one operating
system, so I decided to install Yellow Dog Linux 3.0 (and then
upgrade to 3.0.1 via APT) as an addition to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther.
Read more for my impressions of YDL 3.0.1 and check some
screenshots too.“There are several choices for an alternative OS on the Mac
platform, and that includes Linux and NetBSD among a few others. In
Linux land, there are releases from Debian, Gentoo, SuSE, Mandrake
and a few smaller distros not well maintained or tested. It’s
pretty time-consuming to figure out how to properly install Debian
and Gentoo on a Mac – a bit more involved than their x86 versions.
SuSE and Mandrake, on the other hand, seem to make PPC commercial
releases on a ‘by the way’ mode: their focus is not too much on the
PPC platform. Enter Yellow Dog Linux, the only alternative OS with
full focus and support on the PPC platform and the only Apple
reseller that has the right to install a non-Apple OS on Apple
machines…!”