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 ...

SuSE Linux 7.3 PowerPC Edition is now in circulation. The Linux operating system has been developed to run on Macs equipped with PowerPC processors. The collection includes 8 CDs that contain both the ...

At my company, we are upgrading the toolchain for one of our products to a newer GCC and linux kernel. I'm the only weirdo who likes to work on a Mac, so I'm responsible for getting my own port of the ...

MandrakeSoft has released the second beta-test version of Mandrake Linux 8.2 for the PowerPC platform, the first update of Mandrake for Macintosh hardware since version 8.0 in August 2001. The ...

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 ...

I don't have a Mac OS installed and no access to one. How the hell can I install Yellow Dog Linux (or any Linux for that matter!) on this thing? I am very new to Macs and have no idea. I'm a PC person ...

Open source Java will be brought to the PowerPC architecture for Linux and IBM’s AIX OS under a proposal floated this week that could eventually benefit the different Linux distributors. The project ...

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