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I have a Performa 5200CD loaded and would like to run unix or a linux distro. It is hard from what i have read but has anyone sucessfully done so? I'm planning to use it to host a personal site, so no UI is fine by be, command line all the way.
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It looks like you can install Debian on it but you need to do some stuff first.

I pulled this from a comment page where I found a Google hit for "Performa 5200CD" and "Linux":

http://nubus-pmac.sourceforge.net/
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Sorry guys, couldn't get it to work. Perhaps I need to go old school back to OS7!
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Have you tried NetBSD?
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/
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