“CRUX PPC 2.5 is now available. Supports Apple 32bit “NewWorld” G3/G4 and Apple 64bit G5, Genesi PegasosII and Efika, Acube Sam440ep, IBM RS/6000 CHRP32 (604e), YDL Powerstation, IBM Intellistation POWER, and IBM pSeries RS64/POWERn. CRUX PPC 2.5 is released as two different installation ISO: 32bit and 64bit. The 32bit version is based on a single lib toolchain instead the 64bit one comes with a multilib toolchain. These two versions share the same ports tree. To increase CRUX PPC usability on pSeries, starting from 2.5 we do provide ports for some IBM utils.”
I have tried OpenSuSE and Gentoo on my iMac G5 and I must say that the experience was quite painful. OpenSUSE on PPC sucks bollocks totally: it doesn’t ship with all the necessary repositories, it’s unstable, I never got Totem to support divx-video at all no matter what I did (spent hours in IRC channel too), and there just was generally many apps missing.
Gentoo was more stable, but of course it’s a hassle to install and keep maintained, and my iMac is so slow that it’s just not a feasible option. But even then, there was several apps that don’t support PPC and if I added the ~PPC keyword to the package file and tried compiling it either failed, or if it did it was very unstable.
I might try Crux PPC, but if that too doesn’t seem to run well then I won’t bother trying to run Linux on my Mac anymore.
I just got given a G3 iMac (didnt have the heart to bin it!) and needed a modernish PPC distro to chuck on it
Seems like this is the toy to try 🙂