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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 ...

I am getting a Powermac with the expressed purpose of trying out linux. I am going to bump it up to a 233Mhz 604 PPC processor and all the older RAM I have, so about 96 megs. What remains is figuring ...

I own a Performa 6300CD (PPC). Which is uses a NuBus. This means that I can not load ppclinux. I was wondering wether Debian ppc version will work on my NuBus Mac. If you anyone could tell me the name ...

MandrakeSoft has released Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PowerPC processors. Codenamed “Bamboo,” this release adds all the features found in Mandrake Linux 9.1 available for other processors, including Apache ...

Three notable events in the high-tech industry so far this year have particularly influenced the status of the PowerPC CPU in embedded-system applications and the broader electronics market. Beginning ...

Increasing numbers of embedded developers are turning to Linux as the preferred software platform to support compute-intensive applications in networking, wireless infrastructure, storage and imaging.