On 04/04/2011 10:35 AM, Mike Martin wrote:
On Apr 4, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Eric Myers wrote:
If it's a great big mac it may be a PPC processor
Little ones too. The first Minis were G4s and the 12" laptops use PPC.
A year or so ago I tried Fedora on a G5 Power Mac. I remember there was no
Flash and something else didn't work that made it pretty annoying.
-Mike
There is a Ubuntu for PPC that works really well. Depending on how old
the machine is and how much memory it has, you may want to try Xubuntu
as XFCE desktop uses less system resources.
Yes, Flash or really any proprietary software for Linux is simply not
available. A few packages (like Chromium) also don't seem to be
available. But the bulk of stuff you need to run a desktop, do server
or programming work, and Firefox, are all there and work pretty much the
same. Again, any PPC is going to be 5+ years old, so its usefulness
will be limited from the start by that fact.
I recommend Fedora or Ubuntu over Yellow Dog, which has since decided to
focus on the cell processors found in the PS3 and some IBM offerings.
Ubuntu PPC is not an official port, it is community maintained, although
its easy enough to find with a Google search and they do keep it very up
to date and working well.
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