Linux On An Ancient Macintosh G5?
Has anyone experienced the conversion of the aluminum chassis Mac G5 to a Linux box? Curious in Pennsylvania.
I need to obtain the power cable somewhere to try it. It is a 64-bit monster, so seems like it is worth trying if I can find the weird cable it needs. No luck to date regarding the cable. Thanks.
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2 thoughts on - Linux On An Ancient Macintosh G5?
You can run some flavor of GNU/Linux on it … one that is built or can be built for PowerPC / PowerPC64 architecture. CentOS does not have a port for PPC or PPC64.
I think you’ll find that PPC and PPC64 interest declined once Apple switched to shipping hardware with Intel CPUs. I had two used PPC devices (a desktop and XServe) at one point, but none were worth my time as they were seriously dated.
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http://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=All&origin=All&basedon=All¬basedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=powerpc&status
FreeBSD has built for powerpc-powerpc64 architecture (as well as sparc64
ia64 if someone still has one of these boxes). No offense intended in mentioning other distros in what this great distro doesn’t cover ;-)
Valeri
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Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247
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