These Linux distributions are known to work on PowerPC hardware of some
sort. The "hardware" column is meant to list what is well-supported; it's
usually possible but difficult to get a distribution onto a
poorly-supported PPC platform.
| Distribution |
Hardware |
Special Notes |
| Arch Linux |
New World Mac |
Arch Linux PPC |
| CRUX |
New World Mac, Pegasos |
CRUX/PPC |
| Debian |
New World Mac, Old World Mac, CHRP, PReP, Amiga APUS |
Debian PPC page; Pegasos should work in Debian 3.1 |
| Fedora |
New World Mac |
Pegasos notes (should work on pSeries and JS20 too) |
| Finnix |
New World Mac (G3, G4) |
|
| GeeXboX |
New World Mac |
G4 or better highly recommended |
| Gentoo |
New World Mac, Pegasos |
Linux/PPC Handbook;
PPC FAQ
|
| openSUSE |
iSeries, New World Mac, Old World Mac, Pegasos, pSeries |
POWER@SUSE |
| Peachtree Linux |
New World Mac |
|
| ROCK Linux |
New World Mac, CHRP |
|
| Slackintosh |
New World Mac |
|
| The T2 Project |
New World Mac, CHRP, Motorola CompactPCI blades |
|
| Ubuntu Linux |
New World Mac |
No longer officially supported, but there is a FAQ and forums. |
| Vine Linux (Japanese) |
Old World Mac, New World Mac |
PowerPC notes |
| VLOS |
New World Mac (G4, G5) |
|
| Yellow Dog Linux |
New World Mac, Pegasos |
|
| Distribution |
Hardware |
Special Notes |
| CRUX |
G5 Mac, pSeries |
CRUX/PPC |
| Debian |
pSeries |
Debian PPC |
| Fedora |
G5 Mac, pSeries |
May also work with JS20 |
| Gentoo |
G5 Mac, pSeries |
Gentoo/ppc64 |
| openSUSE |
G5 Mac, iSeries, pSeries |
POWER@SUSE |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS |
iSeries, JS20, pSeries |
|
| SUSE Linux Enterprise Server |
G5 Mac, iSeries, JS20, pSeries |
|
| Slackintosh |
G5 Mac, Xserve |
64bit |
| The T2 Project |
G5 Mac |
|
| Yellow Dog Linux |
G5 Mac, Xserve |
|
| Y-HPC |
G5 Mac, JS20, Maple, Xserve |
|
| Ubuntu |
G5 Mac |
No longer officially supported, but there is a FAQ and forums. |
Last modified: 29 April 2009
