Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.swapon.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, 26 Jan 2015 07:02:45 +1100 Organization: Netspace, broadband connection Lines: 51 Message-ID: <87wq4aocgq.fsf@howitt.home> References: <56aww.255918$fp4.116008@fx10.am4> <653300501443803063.127807play_useirc-posteo.jp@reader.xsusenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: individual.net MWDHeSTFyrdsWysQbvtymwU/LR0seOo7enas7KDb5mz84jlLvJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:qp7DioP3Q0buQvuVjNK+eo9Dnps= sha1:ell8p40ga9q4Nz6czfJSBiTI44Y= User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.powerpc:57 Ant writes: > On 1/24/2015 6:42 AM, playforvoices wrote: > >>> ... >>>> But after trying Debian and MorphOS I finaly go back to OSX 10.5. Take >>>> iCab for Internet, Powermail for Mail, LimeChat for IRC and for security >>>> I use RootKitHunter OSX (scan for security breaches). >>> >>> Thanks. I guess I will try all of them to pick the best. Or keep all as >>> multiple boots and partitions. Heh! >> >> I have forget to say something about MintPPC. It's also a good Distro based >> on Debian 7. On board they have special drivers for PPC Macs and some "Mint >> Tools". Give them also a try. Please let me know what your final way is. ;) >> > > So, we currently have: > > Debian PPC (updated) > MintPPC (updated) > MorphOS (Amiga, not Linux; updated) > Fedora v16-17 (old) I did see posts from someone who said that he had upgraded a powermac to fedora 21, but don't know how heroic an effort this was. I think the community releases past 17 were for power64 and apparently up to 21 would work on a G5. There were builds of the packages for power32 or some such. Not something I would recommend. > Yellow Dog Linux (old) YDL 6.2 was built on Centos5. You can build the Centos 5 update packages yourself and update YDL. Again, not something I would recommend. I looked at some of the web sites in my previous post. These are not distributions I know much about. Crux: http://cruxppc.org/ (community build, may be moribund). Gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PPC/FAQ (seems to have recent information). Ubuntu: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPC (updated, community builds). -- Stephen Harker s.harker@adfa.edu.au PEMS http://sjharker.customer.netspace.net.au/ UNSW@ADFA