After a year or two of looking for some cheap PPC hardware, I finally lucked out with a PowerMac G3 233 at a garage sale. I'm not all that into Mac OS 8 or whatever it's running, but I'd love to have ...

Windows Vista gets a bad rap for its hefty hardware requirements, but it's not alone. Apple's MacOS X platform has left a lot of Macs with PowerPC G3, G4 and G5 chips out in the cold. However, Linux ...

Hi,<br><br>Which available distros for PPC is best, Yellow Dog 3.0 or Mandrake Linux 9.1?<br><br>I intend to intstall it on to my newly acquired G3 266Mhz, I've been a Wintel faithful for most of my ...

If Linux interests you more than OS X, you may be interested in MandrakeSoft’s recent release of Mandrake Linux 8.2 for PowerPC. The Linux implementation is designed to run on a wide variety of ...

With Apple’s transition away from PowerPC to Intel microprocessors, we haven’t heard as much from Terra Soft Solutions — makers of Yellow Dog Linux for PowerPC-based computers. On Thursday the company ...

Terra Soft is selling PowerPC computers designed from the ground-up to run PowerPC Linux. The new yellow boxes, called “briQ,” use G3 and G4 processors and ship with Yellow Dog Linux pre-installed.

Also in today's open source roundup: 8 Linux file managers to try, and Pokemon GO has lost millions of players Apple is known for its planned obsolescence strategy that encourages customers to upgrade ...

About six months ago a couple of prominent mac users announced they were leaving the platform and switching to Ubuntu Linux. Ever since then I've been curious about this Ubuntu Linux. I'm okay with OS ...

Most Linux fans are not old enough to remember that Intel did not always dominate the PC processor market. In the late seventies, Intel won the chip war with Motorola and Zilog by offering certain ...

Mandrake Linux 8.0 has been released for PowerPC, giving G3 and G4 owners another choice for running Linux on their Macs. Mandrake Linux 8.0 includes software and wizards that make installing and ...