On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 20:48, Dave Bachechi wrote: > Dont know if anyone has tried this, but I got a hold of a 15" powerbook > and wanna take off the OSX(never cared for it much) and slap linux on > there. Is this even possible on a mac? Do the let you boot up a floppy > or cdrom so I can format the drive? Linux PPC is quite popular actually! (OK, maybe its because I use it an awful lot...) You have a few distribution choices: 1. Yellow Dog Linux (YDL) 2. Debian GNU/Linux 3. Gentoo (there's also a LiveCD btw...) YDL installs just like Fedora would; its very user friendly. Debian is similar to x86 Debian, but if you track unstable, you get all the newest software out there. That said, I run YDL3 and Debian unstable on my PPC boxes. 3.01 of YDL has been released, and I'll be updating soon. Oh, if its a new 15" powerbook, Airport Extreme is not supported. Otherwise, most of everything works. Suggest checking with google for more details... -- Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.bytebot.net/
