Linux OS for PPC?

pickthecrowdup · #1 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 12:48 AM

I have been searching to see if there is a version of Linux that has been ported to PPC and can actually run linux programs like Firefox and VLC.

Is this possible? I mean, you can run linux on an old cheap computer with about the same or less CPU than a xv6800.

dabackwoodboy · #2 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 12:52 AM

funny that you ask this because i was going to ask this yesterday but after searching around a lil turns out that as of right now its no

pickthecrowdup · #3 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 01:04 AM

Thanks for the quick reply. It seems like a programmer would've figured this out by now. Wouldn't that be sweet to load it up and run a mini Linux PC in your palm?

psiphi · #4 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 03:27 PM

Android OS will likely be able to do this sooner or later on the models of PPCs it runs on...

**skeegcpp** · #5 (**permalink**) 01-05-2009, 03:44 PM

I hear Palm is getting with Linux to launch the Nova OS