Good Distro for an old Emac?

bladdo · 2008-07-25 04:49:05

PPC based, years aged, I'm trying to find a good distro to put on it. It has 256 or 512MB ram, I forget, 1. something ghz processor.

Anyone have any experience with PPC, I was thinking debian or gentoo. I want to find a distro that will run fast on it, I plan on using PekWM as the WM with pypanel and maybe conky.

Will need to be able to use it's airport card to access a WPA wireless network.

Allan · 2008-07-25 04:59:05

I have never used PPC hardware so my recommendations are not based on much/anything but here are some options...

ArchLinux PPC: http://www.archlinuxppc.org/
Yellow Dog Linux: http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/

Zeist · 2008-07-25 08:26:01

Beyond the ones Allan recommended I would recommend looking at Slackintosh( http://workaround.ch/ ), they've done the whole Linux on mac thing for quite some time now.

bladdo · 2008-07-26 04:27:06

Allan wrote:

I have never used PPC hardware so my recommendations are not based on much/anything but here are some options...
ArchLinux PPC: http://www.archlinuxppc.org/
Yellow Dog Linux: http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/products/ydl/

Wow didn't know archlinx had a ppc sect, sounded promising, but I went to the site, searched my favorite wm (pekwm), and right off the bat missing packages

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