bepatient wrote:
Hmm... seems like one more has come out since I debated bringing a 7200 in house: Monolithic Linux
The referenced Web page is not about any PowerPC Linux distribution by that name, but rather about the concept of running on PowerMacs the monolithic kernel ported to PPC by my friend Paul Mackerras, instead of the mkLinux kernel.
That page is old and a bit out of date: Among other things, its uses the obsolescent term "linux-pmac" (meaning the monolithic kernel version), and the list of distributions near the end is way out of date. Where they say "Linux/PowerPC", that's an antique name for the LinuxPPC distribution, which is now defunct. I have a more-current distributions list here: [link|http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#powermaclinux|http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/#powermaclinux]
By the way, I have Yellow Dog Linux 2.2 running on a 7200. (v. 2.3 is available.) It'll never be a speed demon, but it works.
Rick Moen
rick@linuxmafia.com