http://www.osnews.com/story/21629/CRUX_PPC_2_5_Released Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2009, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Sun, 06 Dec 2009 07:14:22 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://osnews.com/thread?367385 http://osnews.com/thread?367385 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. Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:54:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (WereCatf) Comments http://osnews.com/thread?367388 http://osnews.com/thread?367388 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 :-) Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Adurbe) Comments