On Wed, 2004-05-26 at 22:08 +0100, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
Could you inform me of the status of Fedora Core on an iBook?
It's working very nicely on my G4 PowerBook.
If it works properly,
Yes, mostly. The tracking bug for all things mac/ppc related is https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=121179
how easy it easy to setup up,
The installer doesn't know how to make a hard disk bootable by the Mac yet. We're working on it. Don't let it autopartition -- make sure you make a bootstrap partition of 800K (or 1M if the installer doesn't let you specify 800K). Then when it's finished installing but before you let it reboot, follow the instructions at http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/ibook/fedorappc.html to install yaboot.
Join #fedora-ppc on freenode and someone will talk you through it.
and if binary packages are available.
Yes. http://fedora.linux.duke.edu/fedorappc/ has a known good working tree from which you can run up2date. I think http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ppc/ doesn't have a mac boot.iso right now for some reason.
Once the installer is finished it'd be nice to make a real FC2 release for Mac.