I am getting a Powermac with the expressed purpose of trying out linux. I am going to bump it up to a 233Mhz 604 PPC processor and all the older RAM I have, so about 96 megs. What remains is figuring ...

Windows Vista gets a bad rap for its hefty hardware requirements, but it's not alone. Apple's MacOS X platform has left a lot of Macs with PowerPC G3, G4 and G5 chips out in the cold. However, Linux ...

Hey all,<BR>I'm new to linux and i am interested in placing linux onto an older powerbook mac. Any recomendations or tips would be greatly welcomed. And i know that many of you will be upset with me ...

With Apple’s transition away from PowerPC to Intel microprocessors, we haven’t heard as much from Terra Soft Solutions — makers of Yellow Dog Linux for PowerPC-based computers. On Thursday the company ...

If Linux interests you more than OS X, you may be interested in MandrakeSoft’s recent release of Mandrake Linux 8.2 for PowerPC. The Linux implementation is designed to run on a wide variety of ...

Most Linux fans are not old enough to remember that Intel did not always dominate the PC processor market. In the late seventies, Intel won the chip war with Motorola and Zilog by offering certain ...

The latest release of Linux 5.19 has more of an Apple angle than usual, with Linus Torvalds releasing it using an M2 MacBook Air running a version of Linux ported to Apple Silicon. Linux, like other ...

Open source Java will be brought to the PowerPC architecture for Linux and IBM’s AIX OS under a proposal floated this week that could eventually benefit the different Linux distributors. The project ...