Am 15.09.2015 um 17:12 schrieb Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us>: > On 2015-09-15, wwp <subscript at free.fr> wrote: >> >> Searching the web, I see very few possibilities to install a recent (I >> need gnome2) GNU/Linux distro on such hardware. I gave Linux MintPPC 11 >> (http://www.mintppc.org/content/list-macs) a try, but the netinstall >> iso simply fails in installing a boot loader that conserves the >> original OS/X partition even after many tries and workarounds. > > You might try Ubuntu or Debian. Keep in mind that Macs present their > own challenge beyond just a different architecture; they had a funky > implementation of Open Firmware that was a major PITA to configure > properly. The Mac OF bootloader, yaboot, is pretty much abandonware at > this point as well. this also helps to boot http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ -- LF