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by dredmorbius 746 days ago
Oops, yeah, good call there.

There might be Powerbook Linux boot floppy, though NetBSD might be a better choice. The CPU appears to be a 68LC040: <https://support.apple.com/en-us/112137>

A NetBSD install guide which seems to have worked for someone in 2012: <https://web.archive.org/web/20120602135739/http://www.macuni...>

(Site is now SEO scambait.)

NetBSD docs: <https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/>
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oneplane 745 days ago
Looking at the reporting, it does seem like the 68LC040 emulation at least worked (just slightly buggy), which is much better than the not-booting Linux of the same era. I should probably not be surprised to see NetBSD run on yet another thing ;-)

I wonder what has been ported to more hardware at this point: NetBSD or bare metal Doom.

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dredmorbius 745 days ago
Some years back I seem to recall Debian making the claim to support more hardware (if not necessarily the same hardware) as NetBSD. I cannot verify this presently however....
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