CentOS - Oct 2014 - Linux on an ancient Macintosh G5?

Has anyone experienced the conversion of the aluminum chassis Mac G5 to a
Linux box? Curious in Pennsylvania.

I need to obtain the power cable somewhere to try it.
It is a 64-bit monster,  so seems like it is worth trying if I can
find the weird cable it needs. No luck to date regarding the cable.
Thanks.

The Bears will never win until number six leaves.

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 10:48 AM, dan stoicheff <danstoicheff at
gmail.com>
wrote:
> Has anyone experienced the conversion of the aluminum chassis Mac G5 to a
> Linux box? Curious in Pennsylvania.
>
You can run some flavor of GNU/Linux on it ... one that is built or can be
built for PowerPC / PowerPC64 architecture.
CentOS does not have a port for PPC or PPC64.

I think you'll find that PPC and PPC64 interest declined once Apple
switched to shipping hardware with Intel CPUs.
I had two used PPC devices (a desktop and XServe) at one point, but none
were worth my time as they were seriously dated.

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http://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=All&origin=All&basedon=All&notbasedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=powerpc&status=Active
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http://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=All&origin=All&basedon=All&notbasedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=ppc64&status=Active

>
> I need to obtain the power cable somewhere to try it.
> It is a 64-bit monster,  so seems like it is worth trying if I can
> find the weird cable it needs. No luck to date regarding the cable.
> Thanks.
>
> The Bears will never win until number six leaves.
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