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Installing Fedora 9 on the Power Mac G4/466 — Part 1

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I didn't have any complaints about the way Debian Etch performed on my new/old Power Macintosh G4/466. The install went smoothly, the system performed better than I had reason to expect with only 128 MB of RAM, and I can unreservedly recommend Etch to anybody with a box of this pedigree (PowerPC) and vintage (circa 2001). But since this was my first PowerPC install, I can't leave things where they are without taking a few more distros for a spin. Right now I'm installing Fedora 9.

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