I may be mistaken, but does Flint possibly have a good viable idea here?
On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 08:18:32AM -0400, Paul Flint wrote:
Dear Dr. Mark,
With your loading of the FOSS OS and Dave-The-Geek actually getting
the sound running on Ubuntu 16.01 on a PowerPC G5, the fact that Apple
wants everyone to throw away all of their old hardware in order to
upgrade to OS X Sierra, shall have a major impact on the technology
waste stream...
So, Dr. Mark, the real question is can we, by upgrading (yes,
upgrading... :^) these legacy Apple systems with Solid State Drives
containing a FOSS operating system keep this equipment out of our
landfills?
This gets me creative juices flowing. I just now registered the
domain names "bakedapples.net" and "bakedapples.org". As Green
Mountaineers, we have several traditions related to the cooking of
apples, and despite the fact that the term "baked" has been associated
with certain playful substances nationwide, or maybe because of it, I
wonder if "baking" old apple products could be a feasible, viable
project as you have so cleverly
demonstrated on a small scale.
Dr. Mark, as you know we, here in Barre, are simple creatures, living
in the cold and dark, spending our days cracking rock. Our ignorance
in the area of Apple computing and processor hardware is profound,
mostly because we never could afford any. So, questions about this
project abound. What models of Apple hardware could be "baked" how
hard is it to swap out an SDD on a particular model (e.g. the Apple
"ilamp" G4 :^)? How much customization of a distribution would be
adequate? Is it possible to consider this on a scalable (maybe
profitable?) basis?
Anyway, your contribution of one each prototype "Baked" Apple G4 and a
G5 to the BOSI Adult Swim has set imaginations in motion, and shown
the way. Dr. Mark, we are anxious to follow your lead. If anyone
reading this has any insight into baking Apples here in Vermont,
please respond.
Many Thanks and...
Kindest Regards,
Paul Flint
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On Mon, 3 Oct 2016, Mark Engelhardt wrote:
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 16:57:48 -0400
From: Mark Engelhardt <[email protected]>
Reply-To: Vermont Area Group of Unix Enthusiasts <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Linux_adult_swim Meeting today, Monday October 3rd,
5 PM at 40 Washington Street, Barre Vermont
On Oct 3, 2016, at 1:12 PM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote:
As Apple moves away from the PowerPC based systems, and even the early Intel
based products, I wonder if maybe there is life after Apple for this hardware?
Maybe Dr. Mark is onto something?
Paul,
With the recent release of of OS X Sierra - Any computer from Apple made before
the fall of 2009 is now obsolete!
That is a lot of excellent, well built hardware that will run linux very well.
They get even better if you put in a small SSD drive!
Dr Mark ;)
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