What are some practical things to do with an old powermac g4, besides get rid of it?
I already installed Debian PPC on it and tried using it, but it's too slow even with XFCE.
Any ideas?
What are some practical things to do with an old powermac g4, besides get rid of it?
Blake Cox
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Bentley Peterson
You could install Gentoo on it, for real ppc Gentoo.
Justin Barnes
wouldn't that be even slower, with compiling and shit?
Adam Reed
>compiling
>slow
it's 2017, user
Isaiah Miller
>powermac g4
Sebastian Hernandez
You could probably make it faster than Debian, but it won't be worth it. It will take a fucking week just to compile lxde on that thing.
Owen Perez
Keep it around for a decade or two and sell it to a computer museum.
>it's 2017, user
Does that look like 2017 hardware to you?
Landon King
You could use it as a space heater
Jonathan Green
I use an imac g5 as a microsoft office machine when I want to work offline. these old macs are comfy as fuck
G5 are the ones that heat like crazy
Chase Allen
Repurpose the case I guess?
Christopher Mitchell
Install OpenBSD on it.
Jaxson Perez
find the most hipster shop in your area and get like 500usd
Juan Cook
Upgrade to a G5 quad, user. G4 and older are pretty much useless nowadays...
Christopher Wilson
So are G5s
Kayden James
You always can cross compile in your render farm.
Jonathan Turner
The cases are nice.
Just learn to remove scratchs in acrylic.
Jace Foster
You can toy around with Amiga OS emulation via the Morph OS project. Morph OS is one of the few pieces of software that is PowerPC exclusive.
Jeremiah Rogers
G5s are afwul except for repurposing the case. even the first intel mac minis are better
Nathaniel Reed
Morph is pretty impressive. Fastest OS on ppc
Nathaniel Morales
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William Phillips
Why would you make it so ugly?
Kevin Bailey
Install Mac OS 9.2, get into classic Mac OS software dev, and become part of the retroware scene
Carson Martin
To match your face.
Jason Thomas
G5s are great Leopard/Snow Leopard machines, but they can't boot OS 9, so if you even want to run any of the older Mac software that doesn't play nice with Classic mode (mostly games) you're screwed.
Been considering picking up some manner of G3 or G4 machine expressly for old game purposes myself
James Kelly
Wow that actually looks pretty slick, and fast!