Supported PowerPC hardware

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We will provide a list of hardware which should run. Please feel free to add machines, once you were able to install and do some basic usage on such a machine.

A default installation with KDE or GNOME will require at least 2.5GB disk space.
The usage will be painful with less than 256MB RAM. With 128MB or less, the installation will already be painful...

Does run:

Genesi

• Open Desktop Workstation (G4, 1GHz, based on Pegasos II)
• Pegasos II board (G4, 1GHz)
• EFIKA 5200B (G2, 400Mhz) No installation support yet. Please check here for details, how to get openSUSE running.

Desktop Mac:
Note:
10.1 has no oldworld support, as it is unintentionally broken in mainline kernel since 2.6.14.
You need the fixed linux32.gz from ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/powerpc/10.1-ppc.
The two required patches are part of kernel 2.6.18.

• G5 (recent models require the latest kernel. SuSE Linux 10.1 will run on all models)
• G4
• G3
• 604
• 603
• 601

Mobile Mac:

• PowerBook G4
• PowerBook G3
• iBook G4
• iBook G3

...

IBM RS/6000:

• all CHRP and PReP systems
  

Note: 10.1 has no PReP support as it was temporary dropped from the kernel.org kernel.

IBM pSeries:

• all
  

(models with RS64 cpu, like p620, p660, F80 require SuSE Linux 10.1)

IBM iSeries:

• all

(as far as they are claimed to run linux here: IBM iSeries hardware list)
Well, not really. hwinfo does not recognize the virtual disks anymore, so YaST will not find them. (related bugzilla report). Installing onto a native SCSI disk connected to an IPR controller will work.

Does not run:

• Mac with Nubus

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