Puppy on iMac?

[SnowDog]

I've read (somewhere) that linux can be run on a mac....Anyone tried Puppy on an iMac?

My daughter (who lives far away) wants a pc for web browsing, e-mail etc., so I'm gonna send her one and was thinking of an iMac because it has monitor already built in & it looks cool (She's 18, so looking cool is probably a requirement)...but I really wanna give her the option to run Puppy on whatever I ship.

I found an iMac G3 233Mhz CPU, 128MB of ram, 4.3GB hard drive, CD-Rom, 15in XGA display, USB, ethernet and modem ports, NO keyboard or mouse, but apparently it will use a PC-USB keyboard/mouse with logitech drivers for the already installed OS 9.2.

I have never seen a Mac of any kind much less ever used their OS, so I'm a bit worried about sending her something that I can't offer long distance tech support for.

If anyone has tried live cd pup on one of these, please let me know if/how it performs, and if there are any issues I should know about.

Thanks

[MU]

No.
Every binary file had to be recompiled.

There are some mac-linux versions,called "linux for PowerPC".
Mandriva , Debian,yellow-dog (google for these terms with "powerpc").

Unfortunately, not every software will work, for example flash is just available for Standard-PCs.

If your daughter is no "Linux-geek", I would suggest buying a "normal" notebook.

Look here:
http://tuxmobil.org/
for recommended models to avoid frustration with nonworking inbuilt modems and other parts.

Mark

[SnowDog]

Thanks for that info MU.
I have Ubuntu 5.10 for PPC, I guess that would do the trick?

[MU]

That should work, and would be a fine system.
But I don't know how easy it is to set up.

I *think* (but am not shure) you cannot resize MacOSX, so you must erase it, install Linux with partitioning the harddisk from scratch, and then re-install MacOS.

If you really want to use a Apple-Computer with linux, do some google-research first... (I'm no expert in that, just read german articles from time to time).

Mark

[MU]

But there is a way torun Linux-programs in MacOSX, using "fink".

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/u ... /fink.html

http://fink.sourceforge.net/index.php

[heovha]

Did you achieve to put Linux on a Power PC old iMac?

regards

[tempestuous]

Well now that Puppy 5 is based on Ubuntu 9.04, it makes sense to choose this distribution for PowerPC users.
It should be possible, too, to use the Woof build process to create a PowerPC-compatible Puppy.

Here are the download locations for the PowerPC ports of Ubuntu 9.04 and Xubuntu 9.04 -
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/release ... owerpc.iso
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/ports ... owerpc.iso

[kilon]

I've read (somewhere) that linux can be run on a mac....Anyone tried Puppy on an iMac?

My daughter (who lives far away) wants a pc for web browsing, e-mail etc., so I'm gonna send her one and was thinking of an iMac because it has monitor already built in & it looks cool (She's 18, so looking cool is probably a requirement)...but I really wanna give her the option to run Puppy on whatever I ship.

I found an iMac G3 233Mhz CPU, 128MB of ram, 4.3GB hard drive, CD-Rom, 15in XGA display, USB, ethernet and modem ports, NO keyboard or mouse, but apparently it will use a PC-USB keyboard/mouse with logitech drivers for the already installed OS 9.2.

I have never seen a Mac of any kind much less ever used their OS, so I'm a bit worried about sending her something that I can't offer long distance tech support for.

If anyone has tried live cd pup on one of these, please let me know if/how it performs, and if there are any issues I should know about.

Thanks

Puppy runs on an iMAC , but it has problems detecting the display. I run the live cd and i run puppy as well in Pararrels.

It has issues through pararrels (very slow at some point) but it seems to run ok from the live cd .

About MACOS , it actually the easiest OS out there , figuring it out took me days and it was minimum effort. And generally is a completely trouble free OS, so I do not think you will need to worry about it.

Further more, macrumours forums and excellent video tutorials by apple are more than enough to solve a problem . Personally I only had 1 issue in two years with bad graphic card drivers (when i first purchased the iMAC) and was resolved by apple with an update in 15 days. But I never moved a muscle .

The only thing to be careful with , is what hardware to choose to run MACOS with (i mean printes , scanners etc) as MACOS tends to be a bit picke , but you can again ask away in the macrumour forums (or the regula Apple forums) and be fine .


EDIT:
Oups just realised that this is a dead thread.... sorry ... I am the necromancer lol