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Who is using Linux on a 15" Apple PowerBook G4 1 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM?

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  Who is using Linux on a 15" Apple PowerBook G4 1 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2015-03-16 17:11 -0500
    Re: Who is using Linux on a 15" Apple PowerBook G4 1 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM? Djamé <djame@biensur.com> - 2015-04-02 22:12 +0200
      Re: Who is using Linux on a 15" Apple PowerBook G4 1 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM? playforvoices <play_ircusenet@posteo.jp> - 2015-05-04 15:22 +0200

#62 — Who is using Linux on a 15" Apple PowerBook G4 1 Ghz with 512 MB of RAM?

How is it? Is it worth it with the (lat/new)est softwares? Thank you in 
advance. :)
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On 2015-03-16 22:11:40 +0000, Ant said:

> How is it? Is it worth it with the (lat/new)est softwares? Thank you in
> advance. :)

Hey last time I used it  (circa 2006) it was a long time ago and it was 
working very smoothly.
Distro was the first (or second) Ubuntu release (the one they used to 
ship by CD)
and it was working very nicely. I even got mac-on-linux running and it 
was fantastic.

These days, given the ram required by most modern distro, I wouldn't 
try to run the latest fancy distro.
Maybe have a look to Linux mint ppc and keep us posted?


Djamé

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Djamé wrote:

> On 2015-03-16 22:11:40 +0000, Ant said:
> 
>> How is it? Is it worth it with the (lat/new)est softwares? Thank 
you in
>> advance. :)
> 
> Hey last time I used it  (circa 2006) it was a long time ago and 
it was
> working very smoothly.
> Distro was the first (or second) Ubuntu release (the one they used 
to
> ship by CD)
> and it was working very nicely. I even got mac-on-linux running 
and it
> was fantastic.
> 
> These days, given the ram required by most modern distro, I 
wouldn't
> try to run the latest fancy distro.
> Maybe have a look to Linux mint ppc and keep us posted?
> 
> 
> Djamé


I have trying some distros on a eMac with 1Ghz and 512MB RAM. I 
think the performance is near to a PowerBook G4. Good working was 
Debian 7 with Xfce and MorphOS. Also the Lubuntu community has a PPC 
version ready but these has shown some bugs on the eMac. 

About the speed... Fastest was the MorphOS, second to the Debian 7 
and slowest the Lubuntu. 

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