Fedora Core is a free operating system that offers the best combination of stable and cutting-edge software that exists in the free software world.

Find out more at http://fedora.redhat.com/
Since Fedora Core Version 4 the PowerPC platform is also supported.
The Unofficial Fedora FAQ can be found at
Fedora Extra
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Fedora 5

Download links

You can dowload versions for various platform from http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/ including POWER = ppc
Both a set of CDROMs and a single 3.5 GB DVDROM are avaiable.
Or order a set for people with poor Internet connection bandwidth.

Fedora 5 works well on my pSeries based on POWER5 processor via a dumb terminal console
I have found problems installing the DVD version (part way through it reported errors in the packages), which I then avoided by booting from CDROM and the doing a NFS install - this worked perfectly every time.
- This problem my have been just the particular DVD that you get with a pSeries p505 - your mileage may vary.
- You can start an NFS install by using - the at the boot prompt: askmethod
Also when installing into a virtual VIO client (virtual disk), you need the IBM Virtual SCSI client driver installed.
- To get this installed add the boot prompt: nostorage
- Then when asked select the POWER5 (hit 'p' when you get to the driver list) and select the ibmvscsic device driver and then you can install OK
It seems to find the virtual Ethernet driver without any help
So at the boot prompt type:
- boot: linux64 nostorage askmethod