I second and recommend FreeBSD. I can’t guarantee it’ll just work but I had a Sawtooth G4 years ago and it was great until the hardware died.
On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 1:18 PM Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote: > > No, there is no release for this architecture. The architecture's state > is > > "unofficial" and the only branch is unstable/sid. This branch may or may > not > > work. If you want to use Debian unstable/sid just replace "jessie" with > > "sid" in /etc/apt/sources.list and do: > > While Sven is right to point out that upgrading directly from Debian > 8 to Sid is rather risky, and while it's important to clarify that Sid > can indeed be broken, I believe this ends up sounding much more > discouraging than it should: since there is still a `powerpc` ports > being updated, you should expect that it *does* work. > > I think in your place, I would start by trying to boot your current > installation with Sid's kernel. If that works, then I'd make a fresh > install using `debootstrap` into a new partition (you can then try out > the new install using `chroot` as well as using dual-boot). Or maybe > I'd start by cloning your current root partition, and then try my luck > at a plain `apt full-upgrade`: in case of problem you can simply boot > back into your original root partition. > > > Stefan > >
