Gentoo on PPC
 

So has anyone tried it?
I am getting bored with OS X and fink for all of my linuxy needs. I also am wondering if it might make my iBook a bit more responsive by using g3 specific compilations of most applications.

Thoughts?

partition & dual boot?

Tell me how it goes.

Partition and dual boot, shrinking the existing partition looks to be difficult, but we'll see how it goes when the CDs come (ordered yesterday).

Gentoo on PPC is not ready for primetime, I need to give the installation another go, but that is my first impression. Documentation is incorrect and contradictory, hardware detection non-existant, and there is no guide to how the driver and kernel support is setup, what you need and what you don't.

Various kernel components can conflict with each other, and custom compilation is necessary to support basic features.

gentoo is SCARY to install, dude. Part of that may be (no offense) that you mis-performed a step or something. But, nonetheless, I'm not surprised to hear you say it's sub-optimal. :/ such the life of a mac-user ;)

bah, I can't pick and choose every single little component of Mac OS X....so bah :)

Okay, so I am giving it another go. I am going to use some config files made by someone l33ter than me to build the kernel (he had the same model iBook.

Right now I get a kernel panic mounting the root filesystem (the kernel on the livecd has no trouble). I formatted it in ext3 which I thought I had built into the kernel.

I install Gentoo under Stage 3 install and it went fine for me. It's the only linux distro I've kept on my system for more than the time it took to install..

And with Gentoo that especially says a lot :p