29 Dec
2011
29 Dec
'11
3:11 a.m.
On 28/12/11 9:54 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
On Dec 29, 2011 1:18 AM, "Toby
Thain"<toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:
Hm, if so, that's sad. The binary distributions don't really cut it,
though Arch should. Maybe I don't have time for this adventure after all. :)
On 28/12/11 11:22 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
on. Is
dual boot possible, and what distribution have you tried (I'm a
Gentoo man)?
Yes, dual-booting is perfectly possible. My Mac mini G4 triple-boots
between OS X 10.4, 10.5 and an Amiga OS called MorphOS - and I used an
Ubuntu 10.04 PPC boot CD to get it working.
Gentoo is somewhat moribund note, AFAICT, but if you really like your Linux
1995 style then you might B4R able to find a build of Arch or something. Or
a BSD.
On 12/27/2011 03:42 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
Hmm, when my dual 2.5 is fixed I'll have a spare dual 1.8 to experiment
Over Yule dinner, a friend offered me a free computer. Not really
vintage by CCtalk standards, I guess. A dual-core 2GHz G5 Mac Pro.
The thing is, I am considering getting rid of my PowerPC OS X Macs. I
like OS X very much, but despite Cameron's valiant efforts with the
very nifty TenFourFox, it's running out of current browsers and it
only runs a version of Mac OS X that's now 2 releases out of date. As
a writing tool, a G3 with MacOS 9.2 on it would almost be more use, as
it makes no pretence of being a current machine and one wouldn't
expect most modern websites to work...
I am torn. I'd love it, but I'm not sure I really have any use for it,
and I'm short on space and already paring back the collection... :?(
Linux runs quite well on that hardware, quite zippily too. That'd get
you current browsers and everything else, along with a whole lot of CPU
performance.
Me, I'd probably suggest Debian.
But if I want to run Linux, I'd probably just use a PC, myself. More
drivers, plugins and so on. A large part of the reason to use a Mac for me
is Mac OS.
Yes, I already run (Gentoo) Linux on an x86, and OS X on my Macs. This
would be a spare G5 only; the main one would be OS X.
--Toby
- LP