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Ubuntu or Debian or other on an iMac G5?



On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 09:14:52AM -0800, Brendan Kidwell wrote:
> 
> Can anyone share their experiences installing Debian or Ubuntu or any other
> flavor of Linux on a G4 or G5-based personal computer? Any recommendations?

I put Debian Etch on a G4 450MHz machine a few months ago. The
only difficulty was that I didn't have a USB keyboard, and the
cheap USB-PS/2 adapter gave funky results on some PS/2
keyboards. A genuine IBM worked well, though.

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