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Remember Terra Soft and its Yellow Dog Linux for Power processors? Well, Yellow Dog is no longer the darling Linux for Apple machines since the latter company switched to Intel Core and Xeon processors for its PCs and servers a few years back. And Terra Soft doesn't exist any more, after it was acquired by a Japanese company called Fixstars in November 2008. But Yellow Dog is still digging in the back yard to find a cool spot to lay down, and this time around it's playing with Nvidia's CUDA programming environment for its Tesla family of GPU co-processors.
Now that YDL is "no longer the darling Linux for Apple machines", Debian for Power processors is among the very top distros for Macs, as listed in the Penguin PPC.org Linux Distributions for PowerPC hardware, http://penguinppc.org/about/distributions.php .
Debian remains among the top shining star distro for Macs as YDL isolates itself to Intel Core and Xeon processors, and as Fixstar becomes much less prominent in 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC architectures.
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Debian for New World Mac, Old World Mac, CHRP, PReP, Amiga APUS, ... etc.; http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/ and http://www.us.debian.org/ports/powerpc/inst/install Debian in both Stable and Testing versions, up-to-date with active development, nearly identical post-installation software as for i386 and other architectures
Two other supported Mac Linux distros for both 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPCs, besides Debian, are - Crux PPC GNU/Linux, http://cruxppc.org/ - Slackintosh, http://slackintosh.workaround.ch/
Debian remains among the top shining star distro for Macs as YDL isolates itself to Intel Core and Xeon processors, and as Fixstar becomes much less prominent in 32-bit and 64-bit PowerPC architectures.