I ran Linux on my G3 and G4 MacBooks back in the day. There were always some weird quirks, but generally speaking things worked well enough. Workarounds were well documented, at least back then. If I were installing PowerPC Linux today I would probably use the unsupported Ubuntu Images here: http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/current/ I would install the server version to minimize the chance of something going wrong, then I would install XFCE or another lightweight desktop. If that didn't work, I would use Debian -- it looks like Debian's PowerPC version is still supported and I really like Debian. There's a list of PowerPC distros (including dead and unsupported versions) here: http://penguinppc.org/about-2/distributions/ -- Michael Moore On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 3:29 AM, paul g <pj.world at hotmail.com> wrote: > We are looking into giving a Mac laptop---->Power Book G4 new life. the > computer is currently operating under----> OS X Tiger. My thoughts were > Ubuntu or Mint. We want low pollution here. not 'buy a new one' solutions. > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SupportedArchitectures > > The above link states: Please note, that PowerPC Long Term Support ended > with Ubuntu 6.06. > > Any ideas are appreciated. > > Thank you, > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140330/a51285b6/attachment.html>