[wplug] Linux on a Mac PowerBook G3

[Benjamin G. Beige]

I think Mandrake has a PPC version as well...


On 25 Mar 2003 11:24:55 -0500, Tim Quinlan <tim at techfocus.net> wrote:

>> ....But seriously, I was under the impression all Linux distros were 
>> capable of running on Macs.  Am I wrong?  Is YDL somehow specially 
>> geared for Mac hardware?
>>
> The binaries that make up the YDL distro are compiled to run on the 
> PowerPC processor.
> Debian also offers a flavor of their distro that is specially compiled
> to run on a PowerPC.
>
> Technically you could take all the source code from a particular
> distibution and compile it for PPC, and add a Mac friendly boot loader. 
> Which is basically what the folks YDL, Debian and probably a few more
> have already done.
>
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