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. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us