Strait debian works better as they have a port already and Ubuntu will be a little bloated for that model. I have three also which were my kids which ran OS 9 when they were smaller.
Instead of trying to force OS X on there I reused them in my basement data center. They make great little linux boxes and are about as speed as my little netbook. They are not robust enough to be a linux workstation for me but they get by. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Jesse Carroll <[email protected]>wrote: > For Tray Loading iMacs, it might be better to go to Ubuntu 9.04 for > powerpc. > > All CRT iMacs have slow USB 1.1 ports, so some ideas here won't work as > they need > > USB2.0 > > I have an Early 2001 G3/600 SE Graphite running OS 10.4.11 > > 1GB Ram > > 80GB 7200 rpm HDD. > > It has run Ubuntu 9.04 fine, as has my 1999 PowerBook G3/333 Lombard, > > which has to have XpostFacto to run OS 10.4.11. > > UMMV > > J.C. > > > On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Christopher Satterfield < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> I have a G3/400 iMac, slot loading also, and it feels quite slow to me >> running OS 10.2, I just got Tiger disks so I'll run an upgrade sometime >> soon, whenever I feel like digging it out of the garage. Mine has a gig of >> ram, but then again I also never got to reinstall the OS when I got it so >> the original 20 gig drive has like 2 gigs free. >> >> I will tell you though that speed is a matter of opinion. For my mac I >> typically use a Dual 2 GHz G5 with 4 gigs ram, and that makes my desktop >> running Linux feel slow (2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo with 3 gigs ram). >> >> As for airport, I also noticed that all the adapters seemed to be in >> China also. About 2 years ago I got my iMac and I wanted wireless also, but >> didn't feel like buying one from China, so I just used an old Windows >> laptop with a bad screen (backlight was out) and ran that using Internet >> Connection Sharing and a crossover cable for internet, cheap and works, >> even more so when you pull the screen completely to save power. >> >> And for ram, mixing is fine, I originally had it running with a 512 and a >> 128 before I got a 2nd 512 meg chip, both of different speeds and it worked >> fine. Just make sure you're not using 66 MHz ram, only 100 and 133 MHz ram. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a >> group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. >> The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our >> netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To leave this group, send email to [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist >> > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a > group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
