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Old 10-19-2002
Performa 5200CD & unix/linux

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.Smilie
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Old 10-21-2002
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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Old 11-04-2002
Computer

Sorry guys, couldn't get it to work. Perhaps I need to go old school back to OS7!Smilie
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Old 11-05-2002
Have you tried NetBSD?
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/macppc/
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