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

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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. 

--M.

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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

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