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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Several readers have noted IBM's announcement that they will be releasing a PowerPC-Linux based reference platform. IBM says it will make its blueprint easily accessible to a wider range of developers ...

The folks at SuSE Linux, a solutions provider in open source operating system software, say that SuSE Linux 7.1 PowerPC Edition will be available in early April. They’ll be supplying the latest Linux ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Open source Java will be brought to the PowerPC architecture for Linux and IBM’s AIX OS under a proposal floated lastweek that could eventually benefit the different Linux distributors ...

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 ...