The Yellow Dog Linux
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Yellow Dog Linux is designed specifically for PowerPC processor based machines, so it might be a good bet for you. It is also based on the Fedora distribution. Yellow Dog linux is one with a specific ps3 distro. I believe Ubuntu and Gentoo offer ps3 compatibility as well. Yellow Dog Linux 5.0 is already listed in Terrasoft’s store, for US$ 50 including a printed manual and DVDs for sources and pre-compiled applications; the applications include recent versions of the Linux kernel, the GNU Compiler Collection, Firefox, and OpenOffice.org.
Yellow Dog Linux is the first and hopefully not the last in the line of such Linux distributions. The rest is up to the open source community, though the PPC nature of the PS3 may be a hindrance, as most projects are likely to be for the x86 architecture. Yellow Dog Linux is one of these vendors, and they offer a number of packages targeted at different levels of usage. Champion Server is just like the name sounds: a package targeted for server applications, but it also works well as an individual workstation. Yellow Dog Linux is probably the most hassle-free PPC distro, and comes with very clear installation instructions, including specific information on how to safely partition for Linux. You’re also going to need a swap partition and a bootloader such as yaboot.
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