33 MHz G4, Single/Dual 1.33 GHz G4, Cluster Node 2.0
GHz G5, and Single/Dual 2.0 GHz G5)
In general, Yellow Dog 5.0.2 should run on any PPC-based Mac system released before January 2006,
with the exception of Old World ROM or beige G3 and earlier hardware such as 8500s, 7200s,
and Performa PowerPCs. YDL 3.0.1 supports this older hardware and much of the hardware currently
supported by Yellow Dog Linux 4.1 (certainly anything that was manufactured by Apple
before September 2003, which is when 3.0.1 was released). The hardware supported and tested
for Yellow Dog Linux 3.0.1 includes:
Power Mac 4400??“9600
Power Mac beige G3 models and blue-and-white G3 models
Most hardware supported by Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 and 4.0.1
If you have older PPC hardware that isn??™t officially supported, you should still be able to use Yellow
Dog Linux 4.1, but you??™ll be running in an unsupported configuration, so caveat emptor. Terra Soft
Solutions dropped support for many older hardware configurations so that it could focus on the
most likely configurations. Also, trying to support outdated computer architectures, which on the
Old World ROM systems were particularly troublesome, doesn??™t offer much return for a commercial
Linux venture.
Planning Your Installation
Installing Linux on PowerPC and cell-based systems is slightly more complex than installation on
x86 systems because of differences in the bootloader and associated requirements for specific partitions
on certain systems.
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