“CRUX PPC 2.6 is now available. It works on Apple 32bit ‘NewWorld’ G3/G4 and Apple 64bit G5, Genesi PegasosII and Efika, Acube Sam440ep, IBM RS/6000 CHRP (604e), YDL Powerstation, IBM Intellistation POWER, and IBM pSeries RS64/POWERn. CRUX PPC 2.6 is, as usual, released via 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.”
PowerPC as a hardware platform has been a sentimental favorite for me.
On a related note, every Linux/BSD/Alternative OS seems to be dropping “Old World” Powermacs, and drawing a hard line at “New World” as a minimum requirement.
Not totally unexpected, as booting “Old World” Macs is increasingly a lost art, but sad.
Are there any OSes (particularly Open Source) that still support “Old World” out of the box?
P.S. I’m putting together a ‘respin’ of sorts of the Karmic PowerPC mini CD. I have the right files and folder structure to boot from a hard drive partition entirely free of the Mac OS, straight into the net-installer, reliably. Making a CD image that is just as bootable, particularly when burned on OSes than Mac OS (say Brasero on Linux or Nero on Windows) is an uphill battle. Lots of coasters, when I thought the files from the hard drive were ‘just right’ but the resulting CD is just not booting.
Gentoo does, although you can’t really say “out of the box” with Gentoo. 🙂
Edited 2010-01-20 10:05 UTC
You haven’t forgotten NetBSD have you?
Nice, will give this a try on my aging PowerBook G4.