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Question

is there a flavor of linux or some other type of os that i can install on my g3 ppc ibook without too much trouble?

Answer 1

most flavors of Linux:

Fedora

http://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/publiclist/Fedora/12/ppc/

Ubuntu

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/9.10/release/ubuntu-9.10-desktop-powerpc.iso



Mandriva

http://mirror.corbina.net/pub/Linux/mandriva/official/9.1/ppc/doc/mandrake-ppc.html



Debian net-install disk (I don't recommend installing it from the full distribution disks

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/squeeze_di_alpha1/powerpc/iso-cd/debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso



And of course yellow dog got its start on the power pc though I'm not sure which architecture this is fore:

ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/yellowdog/iso/yellowdog-5.0.2-Apple_CD_images/



Nor am I aware of Linux Mint for Power PC. I won't point you to the gentoo pages because I wouldn't wish that on you. Here is a good page on it though:



http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-powerpc-linux-distributions.html

Answer 2

Any PowerPC flavor of Ubuntu should work as well as a G3 will let it work.



The G3 is a craptacular chip at this stage, you know.

Answer 3

Try getting a PowerPC kernel of ubuntu.

Answer 4

Yeah try Ubuntu



also have a look at Xubuntu, works better on slower machines