http://www.osnews.com/story/18641/Slackintosh_Reborn_Interview_with_Adrian_Ulrich Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:05:34 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?272687 http://osnews.com/thread?272687 I just installed Debian over OS X on my iMac G4. It's a little rough around the edges, but it's much faster than my 5+ year old OS X installation. Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:10:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Nathan O.) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?272731 http://osnews.com/thread?272731 Hardly surprising as 5 years ago OS X was much slower than it is today. Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:14:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DevL) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?272755 http://osnews.com/thread?272755 There are only AmigaONE, Pegasos II, Efika and Sam440EP "Samantha" as non-Apple RISC powered hardware that are on the market and available for the common user, and not for industrial purposes only... Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:02:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Raffaele) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?272779 http://osnews.com/thread?272779 Those are all "PowerPC". RISC includes a number of architectures: ARM processors are RISC for example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:52:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (memson) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?272782 http://osnews.com/thread?272782 Just being a little behind Debian and Gentoo, Slackware must be about the third most ported full-featured Linux distribution. There are ports available for AMD64, Alpha, SPARC, ARM, S/390 and with Slackintosh to PPC as well. I have a private port of Slackware 12.0 to MIPS and SPARC and there could be many others to all kinds of different architectures.Edited 2007-09-20 12:27 UTC Thu, 20 Sep 2007 12:25:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (psychicist) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?272791 http://osnews.com/thread?272791 Don't forget Power.

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/ca/en/intellistation/power/index.html

This is available to the common user, and while very expensive, it's not much different in price to a tricked out powermac Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:48:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (BluenoseJake) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?273394 http://osnews.com/thread?273394 Since Ubuntu announced they won't support PowerPC it's good to heard about other distributions compiled for this great architecture. Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:46:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (presi) Comments