Last week I wrote an article about bringing life into your old macs. This weekend we are gonna go a step further. Many of you may know that linux distros are perhaps some of the least demanding when it comes to hardware, so, here are the top 3 Linux distros that can put the power back into your PPC mac.
openSUSE – openSUSE 11.0, which is sponsored by Novell, is a linux distro that is aimed at the average computer user. It comes with both KDE 4.0 and GNOME 2.22 (Graphical User Interfaces) as included options. However, if you are using openSUSE on a computer more then a few years old you may want to look into installing less demanding, more lightweight UI’s such as Xfce.- Fedora – Fedora offers a more demanding and cutting edge experience as compared to other distros.
It is full of unique an intuitive applications and lots of new features that may not show up in other operating systems for many months. Fedora offers a very powerful and elegant interface that is a breeze to both use and learn. Fedora is a very powerful and flexible system with close to two million users worldwide.
- Ubuntu – Ubuntu is a very popular distro that gained its fame through its ease of use. Its
popularity makes finding support as well as applications very easy. The bad news however is that Ubuntu recently stopped releasing PPC versions of its distro. April of 2008 was when Ubuntu released Hardy Heron (8.04), the last version that supported PPC processors.
Keep in mind that if you intend to install another OS on a computer that you are currently using, you will either need to format (erase) you existing drive or you will need to use a non-destructive partitioner. OS X 10.5 or any mac with Apple’s BootCamp installed can take advantage of non-destructive partitioning. Good luck and have fun.
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