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ppcman · 2002-12-28 4:17 am

so many have asked about other powerbooks, now its my turn - XDarwin on a Powerbook 1400 cs>
can it work on that machine - considering its a ppc and all that

btw: any Darwin topics should b in this thread cos afterall, the whole thing is a command line

W2ttsy and PPCMan

Egress · 2002-12-28 10:02 pm

I suppose you could install Darwin, XDarwin, and XFree86, then use Fink or NetBSD for the rest of it, but calling that system unsupported would be putting it mildly. I see no advantages to using it instead of Linux.

I think you'll have better results using Linux on that machine. Yellow Dog is probably your best choice. You can order a CD distro of Yellow Dog for $3.75 from www.tuxcds.com .

Uncle Dick · 2002-12-30 9:31 pm

Actually, IIRC, there's something weird about the 1400 that only allows some obscure Linux variant called "mklinux" to operate on it. I remember looking into it for my own 1400 and finding out that none of the "supported" Linuxes would work.

Buzzword · 2002-12-31 12:13 am

mklinux isn't obscure, it's just old smile It's the old (first, I believe) Mac Linux. I don't know hardware too well at all, but if that pwerbook is as old as it sounds, it might be old world bus instead of nubus. I believe that might have something to do with it.

Odin · 2003-01-02 2:12 pm

Naw, its NuBus, rather than PCI. Oldworld has to do with the rom design.

That is the problem though.. most of the newer linuxes for ppc require a PCI based machine, and the 1400 is nubus based. There is some work in progress to allow the actual linux kernel (MkLinux is based on the Mach kernel, like OS X and darwin) to run on NuBus macs....

Short message regarding linux on the 1400, courtesy of google smile

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#1 2002-12-28 4:17 am

Darwin on a PB 1400cs

#2 2002-12-28 10:02 pm

Re: Darwin on a PB 1400cs

#3 2002-12-30 9:31 pm

Re: Darwin on a PB 1400cs

#4 2002-12-31 12:13 am

Re: Darwin on a PB 1400cs

#5 2003-01-02 2:12 pm

Re: Darwin on a PB 1400cs

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