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Green Tree Python
September 24th, 2008, 08:50 PM
I recently got two iMac G3's w/ PowerPC G3 CPU's. Does any one have any advice or tips on what to look out for. are there any install problems that normally pop up driver issues,etc?

Thanks,

GTP

cyberdork33
September 25th, 2008, 04:42 PM
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ

FinalJenemba
September 27th, 2008, 07:50 AM
I recently got two iMac G3's w/ PowerPC G3 CPU's. Does any one have any advice or tips on what to look out for. are there any install problems that normally pop up driver issues,etc?

Thanks,

GTP

Iv been playing around with linux on my ibook g3 for awhile now. So far its been MUCH better then OS X on the older hardware. After trying a bunch of releases, I highly recommend Xubuntu 6.10. Xfce runs much better on the g3 then gnome does. And while 6.10 doesn't have long term support like 6.06, the 6.10 repos have much newer software like a recent version of VLC, and firefox 2 instead of 1.