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The following WERE officially supported through Yellow Dog Linux v5.x and may function with the current release, with some devices (ie: sound, video) not fully supported. In addition, those which do not offer a bootable DVD reader may require netbooting or the use of CD ROM images.

New World ROM G3s (anything before the G4 product line): Blue & White tower, iMac G3, iBook G3

The following WERE officially supported through Yellow Dog Linux v4.x and may function with the current release if netbooted from a local server or if CD images are prepared. "Pre-DVD" Apple computers were not able to boot from a DVD disk image and therefore required the use of multiple CD images which were not officially supported by Fixstars with the release of YDL v5.x, but were posted to public mirrors:

Pre-DVD Power Macs, Powerbooks, iMacs, iBooks, eMac

The following WERE officially supported through Yellow Dog Linux v3.x but not thereafter. These models required the use of bootx, a Classic Mac OS bootloader and are not likely to work with a more modern release without quite a bit of effort:

Pre Blue & White Beige G3s; Performa models are listed below:
  Power Mac 9600, 9500, 8600, 8500, 7600, 7500, 7500
  Power Mac 7400, 7300, 7200, 6500, 6400, 5500, 5400, 4400

Portables:
  PowerBook Wallstreet, PDQ 233-300MHz G3, 1998-99
  PowerBook 1st Gen 250MHz G3, 1997-98
  PowerBook 3400 Hooper 180-240MHz, 1997

The following MAY HAVE WORKED with a Yellow Dog Linux v3.x foundation but are not likely to work with a modern release without a seriously affection for old hardware:

Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh
Power Macintosh 7220
Performa 64xx
PowerBook 2400
Motorola StarMax and clones APS, MacTell, and PowerTools
Motorola PowerSTACK, FirePower, Series E, PowerStack II
PowerComputing PowerBase, PowerWave, and PowerCenter
PowerCenter Pro, PowerTower, and PowerTower Pro
UMAX S900, J700, C600, C500
Apus 3000, 2000

The following SOMETIMES FUNCTION:

CPU upgrade cards

The folllowing MAY FUNCTION with SOME EXTRA EFFORT:

Power Macintosh 6100, 7100, 8100
Apple Network Servers ("Shiners")

The following MAY FUNCTION with a LOT OF EFFORT:

IBM RS6000 models: B50, 7025-F50, 7248
Here is a link to an untried (by Fixstars) how-to for installing YDL 3.0 on the IBM RS/6000 43P model 7248. The packages should work but are completely untested. The installer will fail so you will have to manually install all packages.

The following will simply NOT FUNCTION with Yellow Dog Linux (try as you may):

WGS 9150, 8150, 6150
PowerBook 5300, 2300, and 1400
Performa 63xx, 62xx, 61xx, 54xx, 53xx, and 52xx
IBM RS6000 models: Power series 830, 850, 40P

If your computer is not "officially supported" please feel free to ask for assistance through the YDL General Mailing List.