Apple G5

arand · Apprentice Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 215

I have a freind who is getting a G5 computer and he wants to put linux on it. Does the kernel support the G5 arcitectrue and does anyone have any experience with this. Here is the basic specs of the system.

Dual 2GHz PowerPC G5
512MB DDR400 SDRAM (PC3200) - 2x256
160GB Serial ATA - 7200rpm
ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
56k V.92 internal modem
SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW)
Apple Keyboard Apple Mouse

I have seen the reports from yellowdog saying that they will support this processor so if comes down to it we will use that but I was curious if would be possible to put gentoo on it.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

CDLM · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 10:10 am Post subject:

Unless I'm mistaken this is a 64bit processor... I do know that a "specialized" version of MacOSX will be available for this machine which to me means that the current PPC linux distros will be unable to support it... Your friend will most likely have to wait until a kernel is developed for it...

Or I could be way off...

- Dave -

plate · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 10:20 am Post subject:

Please refer to the thread about G5 in the Gentoo on PPC forum.