After talking with others in our small-but-growing Linux PPC Facebook group, I settled on Lubuntu as a good starting point. It’s my most powerful PowerPC Mac, so I figured it would be a good way to take Linux for a spin. My original testbed was a Late 2005 2.3 GHz Power Mac G5 Dual with 3 GB of RAM and two hard drives, one with OS X 10.4 Tiger, the other with OS X 10.5 Leopard. If only I’d had a blank CD-R or DVD-R, it would have been a lot easier! This time around I wanted to create a “live” flash drive so I could make sure it actually worked before committing to installing Linux on a hard drive. Everything was handled through the command line in the late 1990s. Back in the olden days, Linux was a text-based operating system similar to MS-DOS. I’ve experimented with Linux and BSD Macs going back to the Mac IIci era, and I’ve never had much luck. I’m going to make it a lot easier for you to install Linux on your old PPC Macs. It took me a couple weeks of research, asking questions of our Linux on PowerPC Macs group on Facebook, and experimenting before I could finally boot into Linux 14.04 from a thumb drive. It's definitely out there though I'd look into running Arch Linux maybe for a server, no idea what to suggest for everyday use.It’s not particularly easy to create a bootable USB flash drive so you can try running Linux on a PowerPC Mac.
It's difficult to choose the linux distribution though because nothing over 12.04 LTS seems to work right, and PPC support isn't mainstream anymore. I've picked me up a G4 Mac Mini 1.33GHz PPC variant, and plan on running an in home web/file/torrent/icecast server. What are you planning on doing with your Mac? The Ubuntu community needs help from people with PPC hardware just like you. MATE has been ported over to PPC and is being tested. I think Ubuntu MATE is the best option for you. When it had tiger about a year ago, it was absolutely the beast and still held it's own REALLY well! In general, what is the best overall Linux OS for my mac? I need to see this mac get some use. I've been hearing about Yellow Dog Linux, MintPPC, Lubuntu etc for PowerPC. I've even seen lag up to Core i5 machines with Unity. I had simply forgotten that Unity is a stupid resource hog and the CPU is at a constant 100% usage even when navigating the GUI. I had no restore disk, so I went ahead and used a PowerPC Port of 12.04 for PPC. Hi! I've got a Power Mac G4 MDD (Dual 1.0ghz, 2GB RAM, fuckton o' harddrives and Radeon 9000 Pro AGP) and Tiger decided it hated life, so I had to format it and install a new OS.
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