I have a similar boat-anchor Mac G5. Lubuntu PPC works quite well on it. I can't upgrade from 16 to 18 yet, doesn't seem to be supported or the distro isn't ripe yet.
You pick up one from Masterfile too? Cheers, William On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 10:33, Stewart Russell via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey - so I picked up a couple of very pretty but backbreakingly-heavy > Apple G5s - one dual-core, the other dual-processor single core. I know > these are old machines (2005) and vastly inefficient compared to modern > machines: there are faster ARM SBCs. G5s make amazing room heaters when > they are busy. > > Distro support seems to have completely dropped away for these machines. > ppc64el is alive and well on IBM servers, but PowerMacs are big-endian. > > Anyone using ppc64 here? What distro would you recommend? Debian used to > have ppc64 support, but its last release is in LTS with no future releases > planned. > > Cheers > Stewart > --- > Talk Mailing List > [email protected] > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > -- William Porquet, M.A. ⁂ mailto:[email protected] ⁂ http://www.2038.org/ "I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them." (Isaac Asimov)
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