Fedora PPC for oldworld Mac?

[Jarod Wilson]

On 11/2/09 1:07 PM, Dan Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 12:18 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 22:25 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
>>> On 09-10-28 18:24:49, Josh Boyer wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 06:17:31PM -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
...
>>>>> Does Fedora PPC work or install on oldworld PCI Macs, such as
>>>>> a beige G3 desktop?  My impression is that no one has tried it
>>>>> on an oldworld
...
>> It _ought_ to work if you sort out the bootloader.
>
> oldworld topped out at 366MHz anyway right?  (the 333 and 366 Beige G3
> were only sold from 1998-08-12 ->  1999-01-01 too)  That's pretty much
> the minimum you'd need to run Fedora anyway these days...  Not sure it's
> really worth it, you'll need at least 256MB of RAM anyway, and those
> things used 168-pin 3.3V DIMMs which are pretty hard to find these days.

Stock might have topped out around there, but there were assorted 
aftermarket upgrades one could purchase. I had a Beige G3 tower running 
at 533MHz with 768MB of RAM at one point in time, iirc.

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Jarod Wilson
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