Gentoo: Swappiness and CFLAGS for PPCs abram, May 26, 2011 Old iBooks are still around and most you can find for very cheap if not free as it was in my case. Ubuntu Linux runs quite well, but I must admit that my love of lengthy compiling and customization leave Gentoo as my primary mainstay. make.conf for iBook PowerPC 750/745/755 (G3): CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mcpu=750 -Os -pipe" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" sysctl.conf modification: vm.swappiness = 20 For more information, check out these two links: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=175419 http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Safe_Cflags/PowerPC Related notes