Windows Vista gets a bad rap for its hefty hardware requirements, but it's not alone. Apple's MacOS X platform has left a lot of Macs with PowerPC G3, G4 and G5 chips out in the cold. However, Linux ...

Although Intel provides the greatest user base for Linux, many other architectures are supported. These include ARM, MIPS, PowerPC, Alpha, SPARC and Hitachi. The availability of cheap x86 hardware ...

MandrakeSoft has released Mandrake Linux 9.1 for PowerPC processors. Codenamed “Bamboo,” this release adds all the features found in Mandrake Linux 9.1 available for other processors, including Apache ...

Most Linux fans are not old enough to remember that Intel did not always dominate the PC processor market. In the late seventies, Intel won the chip war with Motorola and Zilog by offering certain ...

How do I install and set up Linux on a Mac? Linux is an interesting and slightly less well-known operating system – although Macworld’s tech-savvy readers are likely to know at least a little about it ...

Also in today’s open source roundup: How to install Linux on a Mac, and is it worth it to install Linux on a MacBook? There is an interesting subset of Linux users that prefer to run it on a Mac. Yes, ...

Three notable events in the high-tech industry so far this year have particularly influenced the status of the PowerPC CPU in embedded-system applications and the broader electronics market. Beginning ...

Mac users wish Jobs well Wired News covers widespread "get well" wishes from Mac users to Apple CEO Steve Jobs: "News of Steve Jobs' cancer operation has Mac news sites seeing record traffic, forums ...