News Download FAQ Documentation Screenshots Mailing Lists Development Wiki Links About FAQ's What is Slackintosh? What do i need to run Slackintosh? Where can i download the sources? Can i replace KDE with GNOME? What about Java 1.4 for PPC? What is Slackintosh? Slackintosh is a port of Slackware GNU/Linux to PowerPC (Macintosh) computers. Do not send bugreports to Patrick Volkerding, this is not an official port!. Slackintosh does not work on Intel-Macs. Slackintosh is a PPC distribution. What do i need to run Slackintosh? You'll need a New-World Macintosh. Slackintosh 10.1 was tested (and compiled ;-) ) on an iBook2 (G3 - 600mhz) & a Mac Mini. Where can i download the sources? Here and here Can i replace KDE with GNOME? Thorsten Johannvorderbrueggen ported Freerock Gnome to Slackintosh. You can download his pre-built packages from http://workaround.ch/pub/contrib/thorsten/ Note: FreerockGnome replaces some libs with different versions, it shouldn't be a big problem but you've been warned! Note2: Nautilus (File Manager) may fail to display icons after the installation. This is easy to fix: Go to the preferences and select an 'icon-theme' What about Java 1.4 for PPC? Java? This platform independent thing? Well.. Sun doesn't provide any binaries for PPC-Linux :-p You could try GNU-Classpath (Slackintosh includes gcj). In the worst case: Try IBM-Java (Based on SUNs source?!) Go to http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/linux140/, create a new account, sign-in and download the RPM (IBM SDK for 32-bit iSeries/pSeries) run 'rpm2tgz' and install the package Run the java-binary.. If it crashes, you may have to set 'JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE'... 'export JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE=6' worked fine for me

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