At work I have yellow dog running on a 5400 for a shell server and I love it. Yellow dog has a great installer and comes with just enoufgh stuff to get you going.. but no overkill. Before yellowdog I had tried linuxPPC but was unimpressed with the installer and had some trouble compiling certain things. My YD box has been up for 73 days and is running great. Brian Riesgraf Perkinz.Org On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, eric wrote: > Bill Layer wrote: > > > > Is anyone on the list running Linux on Macintosh hardware, either 68K or PPC? > > I'm getting ready to start playing with Mac68K Linux, and I was looking for > > some *local* advice & feedback on using Linux on the Mac. > > > > So far, it looks like Debian is the only game in town..? > > > > My main question is, what software (that might traditionally be used on x86 > > Linux) can I expect to work, and what should I *not* expect to work? > > > > I use linuxppc on a 7500 with a g3 card and it works great. There is a > lack of pre-built packages, but if you have the source almost everything > compiles (some things that do kernel mucking have problems (like cipe > and freeswan), but you can work around most of them) > > the usb support of mac (can't remember if it's the ohci or uhci) is back > ported quite well to the 2.2.x kernels. personally I run a 2.4.0test10 > and X4.0.1 (I run these so I can use a usb wheel mouse (xpmac supports > usb, but not wheelie)) > > linuxppc 2000 has a nice installer. > > Don't know about the 68k side, but the ppc side there are at least 4 > distro's that have good support (linuxppc, debian, yellowdog, turbo, and > maybe even suse) > > http://www.wookieweb.com/linux/distro.htm kind of paints the 68k > picture... > > > Eric > eric at urbanrage.com