After a year or two of looking for some cheap PPC hardware, I finally lucked out with a PowerMac G3 233 at a garage sale. I'm not all that into Mac OS 8 or whatever it's running, but I'd love to have ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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With Apple’s transition away from PowerPC to Intel microprocessors, we haven’t heard as much from Terra Soft Solutions — makers of Yellow Dog Linux for PowerPC-based computers. On Thursday the company ...

About six months ago a couple of prominent mac users announced they were leaving the platform and switching to Ubuntu Linux. Ever since then I've been curious about this Ubuntu Linux. I'm okay with OS ...

If you’re still rocking a PowerPC Mac with a G3, G4 or G5 processor running OS X Tiger and you’re willing to try the new Firefox 4.0, you’re out of luck. With the latest major update to their Windows ...