On Sunday, 9th of August 2009, Dennis Myhand wrote:
Mac User #330250 wrote:
Gentoo is the only Linux I know of that has a 64-bit PowerPC port.
I'm a bit confused as to your reason for wanting to do this. You want
to run a 64 bit *nix system on a G-5. I thought that was what OS X was.
On Monday, 10th of August 2009, Ralph Green wrote:
I don't think this is something very many users
will be interested in and I would not recommend it for many people.
Definitely. Not everyone will be interested in such a procedure.
OSX
is prettier than any Linux setup I have seen. OSX has
On Aug 9, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Kris Tilford wrote:
The problem with OS X on a G5 is the fact that Apple is abandoning
support for the PPC Macs, so there won't be any more OS X updates. The
recent lack of support for Java 1.6 for the PPC Macs is already made
newer Java programming fail to run
On Aug 10, 2009, at 9:25 AM, Mac User #330250 wrote:
Have a good day,
Ralph
Thanks.
I will consult the Gentoo Linux forum. I was just asking about Linux
experiences in general and if anyone has had the same thought, to
run a true
64-bit system on a 64-bit processor.
My feelings can
On Monday, 10th of August 2009, Bruce Johnson wrote:
My feelings can be summed up in this list of humorous Linux
Demotivational Posters :-)
http://www.arouse.net/despair-linux/
New ironic pictures for Linux geeks. Great!
Thanks,
Andreas aka Mac User #330250
LINUX on a Power Mac G5?
Because I've tried now for some time but I don't get it right somehow.
The Kernel doesn't boot. I haven't found the problem yet.
Mac OS 10.4.11 works without errors. I've now upgraded to Mac OS X 10.5.8 and
no problems at all. Works very smoothly. Nice OS!
I've been running
On Sunday, 9th of August 2009, Alex Smith (K4RNT) wrote:
Perhaps you can try openSUSE or Yellow Dog Linux. They both have very
frequently used PowerPC ports that are very reliable and have large
software repositories.
www.terrasoftsolutions.com
www.opensuse.org
I haven't used either
Mac User #330250 wrote:
Yes, I've downloaded OpenSUSE too. YDL I've never tried before.
I installed OpenSUSE (the x86 version) on my mothers laptop and she's very
happy with it. I know OpenSUSE and have also tried the PowerPC version on my
Power Mac G4 MDD once.
I'm not happy with the
On Aug 9, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Dennis Myhand wrote:
I'm a bit confused as to your reason for wanting to do this. You want
to run a 64 bit *nix system on a G-5. I thought that was what OS X
was?
I agree. I've run Ubuntu Linux on quite a few machines, and OS X is
clearly superior for now,
Kris Tilford wrote:
The problem with OS X on a G5 is the fact that Apple is abandoning
support for the PPC Macs
One of the saddest days of my techno life was DEC selling the Alpha to
Toshiba. My dearest desire was a 4 proc Alpha maxed
out on RAM (Think it might have been 32 gigs or maybe
On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 16:21 -0500, Dennis Myhand wrote:
Mac User #330250 wrote:
I'm not happy with the fact that the PowerPC version of OpenSUSE is a
32-bit
distribution. Okay, it does matter only when an application needs more than
4
GB of RAM, allright. But my G5 has 16 GB RAM
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