[Zope] PowerMac 7500 with LinuxPPC and Zope?

[James Harrison]

on 6/27/00 8:34 PM, Curtis Maloney at curtis@umd.com.au wrote:

>> I would like to turn an old Mac 7500 into a Zope server.  LinuxPPC installs
>> on the Mac PowerPC using the Red Hat 6.1 linux distribution.  Does anyone
>> have any experience with Zope with this type of set up?
>> 

http://jhh.cbmi.upmc.edu/ is running Zope with Linux PPC on a blue G3. Works
just fine, including products like Squishdot and Zwiki.

>> Should I consider a different linux distribution than PPC?
> 
> Well, aside from Yellow Dog, are there really any other Linux distros suited
> to the PPC?

SuSE has just released a distribution for the PPC
<http://www.suse.com/products/susesoft/PPC/index.html>. A CD is being
distributed with the June issue of MacTech.

Jim Harrison
Univ. of Pittsburgh