Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!newsfeed.straub-nv.de!news-1.dfn.de!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Stephen Harker Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.powerpc Subject: Re: Linux PowerPC on a very old PowerBook G4 1 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM? Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 17:43:17 +1100 Organization: Netspace, broadband connection Lines: 35 Message-ID: <87oapvz2wq.fsf@howitt.home> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: individual.net PkAAGxFUkW7u4v2Kg4gB8gtQn8h5uLPDglmkT+SvPmRtdjhX4H Cancel-Lock: sha1:0MXANmqi15aXNJcfXaGJBLB1LJY= sha1:ceis0o21i2AiNCCu5uoIhCTDwx0= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.powerpc:46 Ant writes: > Is anyone running Linux on it? If so, then is it usuable like with > Internet usage (e.g., web surfing), etc.? I have linux running on (i) PowerMac 7600/200 (with 450 MHz G4) and 1 GB RAM, (ii) iBook G4 1.33 MHz with 1.5 GB RAM and (iii) PowerMac G5 dual-core 2.0 GHz with 12 GB RAM. None exactly correspond. The 7600 is useful for basic web browsing, but suffers from slow memory and slow graphics on some sites. The iBook is fine. Adding memory is cheap and easy in most cases (it was for my iBook). Here are some links for distributions (the PowerBook is classed as New World). The first is likely out-of-date as the site is probably not maintained. The DeveloperWorks site may have some useful links, but it is focussed on IBM Power servers. Of these the ones I know something about are commented below. Debian is still maintained for PowerPC and works well. Fedora is available for G4 for Fedora 16 and 17 as a secondary architecture, possibly for later distributions. Yellow Dog Linux has not been updated much past 2010 (YDL 6.2 was released in 2009). -- Stephen Harker s.harker@adfa.edu.au PEMS http://sjharker.customer.netspace.net.au/ UNSW@ADFA