Good idea, I'd forgotten about yellow dog <br><br>thanks<br><br>Simon<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Mar 7, 2008, at 7:55 AM, Simon Allcorn wrote:<br>
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> Hi,<br>
><br>
> I currently have 2 imac (1x G3 400Mhz - free, 1x G3 500Mhz - 50 quid<br>
> from fleabay) and am trying to get them working as myth frontends.<br>
> I've not managed to do it yet, but mainly because ubuntu has a<br>
> kernel option turned on that caused gcc to segfault (and the pre-<br>
> built frontends too). So now I'm trying to get fredora running and<br>
> will let you know how I get on. I'm going on the same theory as<br>
> Sarah above - if it can play DVDs it should be able to play<br>
> standard def DVB feeds.<br>
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</div>You might look into Yellow Dog Linux. It's specifically designed to<br>
run on PPC architecture Macs.<br>
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beww<br>
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