Windows Vista gets a bad rap for its hefty hardware requirements, but it's not alone. Apple's MacOS X platform has left a lot of Macs with PowerPC G3, G4 and G5 chips out in the cold. However, Linux ...

Hi,<br><br>Which available distros for PPC is best, Yellow Dog 3.0 or Mandrake Linux 9.1?<br><br>I intend to intstall it on to my newly acquired G3 266Mhz, I've been a Wintel faithful for most of my ...

If Linux interests you more than OS X, you may be interested in MandrakeSoft’s recent release of Mandrake Linux 8.2 for PowerPC. The Linux implementation is designed to run on a wide variety of ...

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Well, a friend of a friend was getting rid of a non-working Power Mac G3. I brought it home and played with it a bit, and determined that the hard drive in it is dead. Considering the computer is now ...

With Apple’s transition away from PowerPC to Intel microprocessors, we haven’t heard as much from Terra Soft Solutions — makers of Yellow Dog Linux for PowerPC-based computers. On Thursday the company ...

Jay Carlson has put together a page that compares the PowerPC G3 and G4 to Pentium 3 and Athlon, based on Linux benchmarks. The numbers do not bode well for the PowerPC, which falls short in ...