> From: slavek.banko@axis.cz
> To: trinity-users@lists.pearsoncomputing.net
> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2015 01:40:02 +0100
> Subject: Re: [trinity-users] PowerPC
>
> On Friday 27 of March 2015 23:53:44 Larry Stotler wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 6:29 PM, Tini <trin@telekon.org> wrote:
> > > If I understand you correctly, how hard is it to get a Mac to run TDE?
> > > I know they're both based on Unix.
> >
> > Any new world PowerMac(iMac and newer and Powerbook G3 Lombard and
> > newer) can run Linux or NetBSD easily. You just need a PowerPC
> > specific port. Debian's is very good. Fedora had a recent PowerMac
> > port as well. I've run Linux on Old World macs as well like the
> > PowerMac 9600 but they are not really viable machines any more. G4s &
> > newer are very usable tho.
> >
> > Running TDE requires it be recompiled and tested on Mac PowerPC hardware.
> >
> > Any intel Mac can use the x86/x64 ports so there isn't anything extra
> > needed.
> >
> > I have been hoping to have time to test it on my iBook Clamshell but
> > haven't had time......
> >
>
> As I mentioned earlier - PowerPC builds are available on alternative apt
> source 'preliminary-stable-builds'. Because I do not have a real PowerPC
> hardware (such as PowerMac), I could not perform a real test.
>
> --
> Slávek
>
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Hi,

I bought about 2 years ago an used and inexpensive imac g3 400mhz (the ones with a crt and a colored translucent back), and it works quite well with Debian or Ubuntu for PowerPC, but I had a hard time to configure X.org to get a graphical desktop environment. Once set-up, I only had kind-of frame buffer graphic driver, but the rest of the computer is well supported. The hard disk is half dead, and I don't have much time anymore to play with it...

-Alexandre