In a recent Slashdot article, someone asked if it were possible to create a fully-featured bootable Linux LiveCD for the Macintosh.

We thought this was a great idea. So today, we are releasing two full-featured LiveCDs for the PowerPC: one with KDE 3, and another with GNOME 2. Take a look at the KDE LiveCD running MacOS X in a window via Mac-on-Linux.

To use the LiveCDs, Simply boot one on your NewWorld PowerPC (iMac or newer) and enjoy the great performance and functionality of Gentoo Linux/PPC. LiveCDs can be downloaded here or at similar locations on our mirrors.

Included on the LiveCDs:

• Custom PPC kernel (2.4.21-r1) with G4 AltiVec support
• Latest Mac-On-Linux emulator (run MacOS X in a window)
• Gentoo Compressed Loop 2GB live filesystem
• Xfree 4.3 (DRM) with either Gnome2.2.1/Metacity/Openbox or KDE3.1.2
• A complete set of Gentoo 1.4_rc7 PPC stages (for installing Gentoo)
• HFS(+) resizing kernel/parted patch (easily make room for Gentoo)
• IPv6 support out of the box
• Latest stable Mozilla release
• Distcc-enabled gcc toolchain (for distributed PPC compiles)
• Wardriving tools (kismet and airsnort)
• Routing/advanced iptables support
• Apache 2/SSL with php
• Countless other goodies