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PPC: Which PowerPC computers are supported by SuSE Linux?
Problem:
You have a PowerPC and would like to install SuSE Linux. The following list
tells you which particular PowerPCs are currently supported or known to
work, respectively.
At this time, there are many manufacturers who use PowerPC processors. Not every
computer is supported just because the processor is supported, however, the entire
architecture of the machine must work as a whole.
Solution:
Basically, every computer with a PCI bus should work.
We know that at least the following machines work/don't work:
Apple
- Supported:
- PowerMac 4400, 72XX, 7300, 7500, 7600, 8500, 8600, 9500, 9600
- Performa 5400, 5500, 6360, 6400, 6500
- PowerMac G3 beige
- PowerMac G3 B&W, G4, iMac, iBook
- PowerBook G3, 3400, 2400
- 20th Anniversary Macintosh
- Not supported:
- Power Macintosh 6100, 7100, 8100 - they run only MkLinux: http://www.mklinux.org
- WGS 6150, 8150, 9150
- PowerBook 1400, 2300, and 5300
- All Performas 52xx, 53xx, 61xx, 62xx, and 63xx.
These machines have a proprietary bus architecture and will therefore "never" be
supported.
"Never" means: Until someone sits down and writes a driver, which maybe tomorrow or never. :)
Umax Macintosh clones
- Supported
- Status unknown
- SuperMac C600, C500, C700, S900
IBM RS/6000
- Supported
- RS/6000 B50, F50
- RS/6000 43P Model 133, 140, 150
- Not supported
- RS/6000 200, 220, 230, 250
- RS/6000 H70, F80, S70, S80, SP (everything with a Power3 or RS64II - processor)
- RS/6000 43P Model 260,
- Status unknown
- Machines with a 604e processor and PCI could work.
- RS/6000 F40, H50
- all other RS/6000 :-) Have a look at the mailinglist archive at http://lists.linuxppc.org/
Amiga APUS systems
- due to the lack of Linux kernel support we cannot provide support for these systems.
Further information about supported PowerPC machines can be found at
http://www.linuxppc.com/about/hardware/.
However, those computers have not been tested by SuSE and often need
a specially patched Linux kernel.
Every machine tested by SuSE will be explicitly named here in this list.

Keywords: PPC, POWERPC, HARDWARE, MAC, MACINTOSH, APPLE, RS6000, APUS, UMAX

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