[Novalug] Ubuntu on PPC

[Alex Smith (K4RNT)]

I just received a Yikes G4 for free, and plan on loading Yellow Dog on
it, and purposing it as a general purpose server.

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:09, Beartooth <beartooth at beartooth.info> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Dec 2010, Mark A. Metz wrote:
>
>> I have my 17 year old step-son, Nate, visiting for the holidays
>> and we're trying to get him familiar with Linux.  The wife and
>> I had an old G4 PowerBook collecting dust so Nate and I decided
>> to load a distro or two of Linux.
>
>        You might take a look at
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/PowerPC
>
> Fedora offered .ppc versions at least through F12; I think also
> 13, and *maybe* the current 14.
>
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