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 <talk@gtalug.org> 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.
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