I have 500mhz and 1.5 ghz G4 PowerBooks and corresponding similar Powermacs.
I can easily give several examples from my personal experience and my associates where any of these are too slow For instance I basicly had just two things I wanted to use with the last version of Debian stable where I got stuck because my machines were too slow but I could easily do on a late '06 core2duo $300 MacBook. Java IDE and Krita to be precise. I tried doing an optimized build of Java for better speed - it was almost useable, probably fine on a G5 I'd imagine - but after compiling for hours and hours it was such a complex build and huge filling up my hard drive I stopped and gave up. But even so I am considering trying the Krita build on new Debian stable. Just for something to do and PowerBook can be left alone to build while I am away at work / study. But if I were serious I would definitely get a dual G5, they are cheap these days. Power hogs but for builds much better why suffer By the way all these G4s I own have 1GB ram On Aug 27, 2013, at 11:14 PM, Rick Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > An 800MHz G4 with a stripped down system is plenty "quick enough" for > development or just about anything not too computationally intensive. I have > a couple of them that I use for testing. > > But an older machine like that can be seriously memory-constrained ("No sane > person could possible need more than 64K of RAM!" -- designers of the > original IBM PC) so you have to be extremely carful what software you try to > run on it. For example, there are packages that aren't available for the > armel architecture because the build machines run out of memory trying to > compile them. > > Rick > > On Aug 27, 2013, at 10:27 PM, Super Bisquit <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The iBook g4 had a processor rating between 800 MHz and 1.42 GHz. Now, I ran >> Debian on an iMac with an 800 MHz processor and a Powermac QuickSilver with >> a 933 MHz processor with both having a recompiled kernel of 1000 Hz. Unless >> you are running [too much stuff] on your iBook, it is fast enough for >> development. >> >> >> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: >> How about just someone who will run testing / unstable and submit bug >> reports and is willing to work with developers testing patches >> >> This model not fast enough for general development and with so many models >> would be unfair to give special attention to one >> >> >> On Aug 25, 2013, at 6:30 AM, Jack Malmostoso <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Dear list, >>> >>> I have an old iBook G4 800MHz which I don't need anymore, and I was >>> wondering if some Debian PPC developer would like to have it for >>> development purposes. >>> >>> I have tried to contact the Debian hardware donation email address but >>> did not get an answer. >>> >>> Please let me know if there is any interest, thank you! >>> >>> >>> -- >>> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >>> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >>> [email protected] >>> Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130825153052.4b433ddc@nostromo >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] >> Archive: >> http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
