SUSE LINUX 7.3 POWER PC EDITION

by E-Book Systems, Inc.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.7 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005V255
• Item model number: 2014-23PPC
• Date first available at Amazon.com: May 10, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #28,905 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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5.0 out of 5 stars Run Linux on a Mac!, January 4, 2002

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"the_technomaster" (West Nyack, NY United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: SUSE LINUX 7.3 POWER PC EDITION (CD-ROM)

Have an old PCI Mac sitting around? Or... if you're hardcore a G3 or G4 and you want to toy with yet another OS? This is for you. Currently there probably 3 major Linux distribution packages for the PPC platform, YellowDog, LinuxPPC, and SUSE; SUSE is probably the best pre-packaged one of them all, with an easy installer and the ability to boot off regular mac system folders. Pretty exciting stuff, even supports firewire hard drives.

SUSE 7.3 package comes with a whopping 8CDs, printed docs, and a whole lot of applications. Wanna run Mac within Linux? Covered. Wanna find out what the Gimp is all about? You can do that too. One great use of Linux, however, on older Macs is the ability to run a super-quick apache web server. If you have a static IP address, you'll be all set with an excellent server you can administer yourself for the right price...

For the price, it makes a mighty fine value, especially compared to the up and coming Mac OS X, which simply doesn't run on older PPC macs.

One piece of advice--- SUSE Linux PPC will only run applications that have been compiled for PPC... with that in mind, you'll only have thousands of apps to play with, not the whole linux library out there.