A PowerPC edition of Ubuntu MATE 14.04 is ready for testing thanks toAdam Smith from the UbuntuMATE community!
Adam has uploaded the .iso image to OneDrive and it is available from the linkbelow.
Apple Power Mac G5 Linux Ubuntu Mate 16 04 - Install and Test Linux Ubuntu Mate 16.04 PPC ISO - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/16.04/release/. My original testbed was a Late 2005 2.3 GHz Power Mac G5 Dual with 3 GB of RAM and two hard drives, one with OS X 10.4 Tiger, the other with OS X 10.5 Leopard.It’s my most powerful PowerPC Mac, so I figured it would be a good way to take Linux for a spin. Step one is to choose your distribution.
Adam says:
Those familiar with PowerPC will know that yaboot is the default bootloader,and that remains so here, but I’ve also added grub to make booting directlyfrom an iso file easier. There is no need to burn a DVD!
You can use the following hashes to confirm the integrity of the
ubuntu-mate-14.04.1-dev.34508-desktop-powerpc.iso
download.- md5sum
2bb57b2bbf87b668a94c38dd0393b263
- sha1sum
9fe995a2832e2c0bcce5604b08095fb7217882ac
- sha256sum
b53d2836c00a2f9180353e908f09ee9eb4b17138dcc72bf692c6bd68b2756032
You can find Adam’s announcement on Ubuntu MATE Google+ community. So, if youhave any questions or feedback I suggest you contact Adam here.
Thanks very much to Adam for taking this on and well done on bringing UbuntuMATE to another platform!
While there are several builds of 'linux' or unix that could be run in certain Apple environs (hardware)
the names and conditions are detailed enough to consider further and in-depth study prior to being
fully (experimentally) committed to the installation and attempted use of any specific version.
Ubuntu, Debian, Mint PPC, and others offer possibilities; and may require much more command-line
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use to access their features than the graphic user interface of Mac OS X (or earlier OS 9).
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While I've read about these differing systems and how they could be used in Apple architecture
I've not used any of them; but do have a sprinkling of Mac OS from early version 1985 on and
lesser so with 'windows' PC. Not sure, but there are several places to study the topic online and
you may find a good offline book to backup the internet to use with experimental versions.
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Jan 6, 2019 9:01 AM