I have an early 17" imac G5 PPC, only 512mb RAM. Been looking at the PPC linux distros available, and xubuntu 10.04 looks good, does anybody run here on an old Imac?
Will just be a backup pc
any other better distro suggestions welcomed,
cheers
I have an early 17" imac G5 PPC, only 512mb RAM. Been looking at the PPC linux distros available, and xubuntu 10.04 looks good, does anybody run here on an old Imac?
Will just be a backup pc
any other better distro suggestions welcomed,
cheers
MintPPC is what I use nowadays.
Thanks for the Mint ppc link, looks like a nice system - great work!
when do you expect to get an ISO file together?
(ps: I registered for an account to get the instructions, I can imagine, that some/alot of people wont want to hassle of that)
I am working on that, but that is not easy to accomplish. Don't expect it soon. If people want to help in the project, feel free to contact me.
Last edited by linuxopjemac; October 15th, 2010 at 12:08 PM.
anyone else run an old imac g5 with linux??
I run a 2004 PPC Powerbook G4 with Ubuntu 10.10. Performance is good, but I've had to make tweaks, like disabling KMS with my radeon graphics card in order to get visual effects to work.
EDIT: it had 512MB of ram, but I'm using 1GB of 3rd party ram now. However, it doesn't use nearly that much ram on a regular basis.
What year was yours?
Last edited by zeroti; October 15th, 2010 at 07:31 PM.
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