aoe: ppclinux links and experiences

up-to-date: installation on the shiny 1280x954 11/2002 powerbook g4

• Linux on PPC(32) computers Ben Herrenschmidt's general page on ppc linux - also the source for the kernel best adapted to ppc
• Debian GNU/Linux on a TiBook III by christophe barbe - the ultimate ressource :)
• asm introduction (ibm)

Historic section: 1998 and earlier

• afs-linux
• linuxppc|mklinux. never again. well, ok, gimme one, i'll do it again ... Since the official austrian student union ÖH buys practically only Apple computers, the interested layman/woman can gain a lot of experience as to the PowerPC/PowerMacintosh Computers. Whereas the [borken] MkLinux Distribution (backup site) was quite easy to install on a 7200 (no AV), the Mach Kernel overhead and the chills of compiling my own kernel made me anxious to install the ppc version. (Besides at the moment I don't have the 7200 any more, and MkLinux won't run on the OF)

  Well, as of sep 25 '97 i have been sitting in front of two 4400 (200 Mhz 604, 16 resp 48 mb ram, 2 gb internal, my linux on a 1 gb quantum fireball external hd on part /dev/sda4 and swap on /dev/sda3)

  what's nice is the fact that OF (IEEE: 1275-1994 open firmware) is forthlike, an open standard and used by apple, sun, acorn and other fine companies ;-)

• MkLinux Apple Site, the best project Apple ever did up to Project X, which seems to be similarly interesting, not including A/UX, which however I have not ever had the disadvantage to mangle. (mklinux was done in cooperation with OSF/The Open Group)
• linuxppc site, also usable for the Red Hat installer disk
• linuxus Burp Team, Linux and MlLinux (=Linux PPC) pages (also available in french)
• Another Linux PPC page
• Setup page for Mototola Starmax
• LinuxDisks, Michael Pollets tool for accessing ext2 partitions from MazeOS (careful, he's got a midiplugin that regularly crashed my netscape when I still had one :-))
• Open Firmware Information:
  • Three Apple technotes (1601, 1602 and 1044.
  • IEEE 1275) OF Homepage