Dual Boot Linux on an emac

[drawls31]

Could someone give suggestions on best distro to install on a G4 emac?
Thanks for any replies.

 

[DelJo63]

I believe the G4 eMac is a PPC based machine, not an Intel.

Google for Bootcamp on Mac OS X

 

[drawls31]

can't use boot camp On PPC.I've been told.
I think I'll use yellow dog.
Thanks for the reply.

 

[SNGX1275]

You shoudl be able to dual boot without problems. People do it, I just haven't so I don't have any specifics.

I do know that you aren't limited to Yellow Dog. I've personally had Ubuntu and Opensuse on my G3 B&W. Gentoo also works on PPC. There are lots of options you have.

 

[Rick]

There's plenty of PPC linuxes out there... Debian, Fedora Core, Mandrake, Gentoo, SuSe, Ubuntu and more... All of which are very popular flavors of Linux at the moment.

Unfortunately - as time passes - PPC will go the way of the dodo. This is a result of PPC's hardware being EOL.

 

[DelJo63]

There's plenty of PPC linuxes out there... Debian, Fedora Core, Mandrake, Gentoo, SuSe, Ubuntu and more...

yep --- just got to work out the dual boot.

 

[drawls31]

Thanks people.