"Clamshell" iBook & Linux

[Olli73]

Hi All,

I´ve got a question and i think this might be the right Forum to post. A few years back i got my hands on a Clamshell, a 366 MHz Graphite Special Edition. I put in a 80 GB HDD and maxed memory out (576 MB), then put Tiger on it. It runs quite well but internet is really sluggish.
I would like to revive it and use it for playing music and surfing the internet, nothing special. Does anybody here have some experience with putting a Linux distro on these? Are there recent forks that would run on these old iBooks, suggestions are most welcome. Would be a shame if it would just sit on the shelf collecting dust...

Thanks, Olli

 

[The LT]

There were some old distros like YellowDog designed for Power arch. Newer distros like Gentoo Linux are perfectly usable on power-based systems and can be optimized and tailored to your specific needs should you be willing to put a bit of time into it.

I suggest checking Gentoo out. Takes a while to compile but you'll get a perfectly functional an stylish system.