Is there a distro for an old Power Macintosh?

[sdavies45]

Hi there,

I have recently acquired an old power macintosh 5500/225, I believe it has only 64 megs of ram so would obviously need a very lightweight distro to run, but what lightweight distro would run on an old macintosh with a powerpc 300mhz processor?

I look forward to a reply in due course

Stuart

[IsaacKuo]

I would recommend Debian. I don't have any experience with PowerPC, but I know Debian supports that architecture and I have plenty of experience with Debian on 300mhz Intel/AMD machines with 64megs or less.

I would suggest you do a base install, and then install the following:

apt-get install xorg alsa-base alsa-utils icewm icewm-themes menu xfe gqview aterm iceweasel xmms

After installing the above, configure sound with:

alsaconf

You can get into an icewm session by logging in as a regular user and using the command "startx".

I'll repeat that I do NOT have any experience with PowerPC. There may be various details with doing an install on PowerPC that I'm simply unaware of. The above advice works well with a PC compatible, with 64megs of RAM.

[wkdude18]

I haven't used puppy myself, but it is supposed to install under 100 Mb and is supposed very fast as well, good for your old computer.

[IsaacKuo]

Puppy Linux is only for i386 compatible processors. PowerPC is not.