Hi,
thanks to all for your replies to this off-topic thread!
I succeeded in installing a 15.04 Mate Ubuntu, had to struggle a bit to get sound, wifi and video stability (found easy fixes on the web about these). Still remains incorrect desktop colors (something wrong about big endian somewhere in a lib, not fixed AFAIK), but at least I can use the mac mini as a (slow) sound station using rhythmbox + my hifi.
Thanks again, regards
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:10:55 -0400 Mauricio Tavares raubvogel@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Jeremy Hoel jthoel@gmail.com wrote:
Besides the other linux distros mentioned, you have another more retro type choice
http://www.macworld.com/article/2363177/macs/turn-your-g4-era-mac-into-a-nex...
You know, I do have a G4 mini somewhere... I do wonder if italso works under emulation (KVM AFAIK does support PPC).
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 2:29 AM, wwp subscript@free.fr wrote:
Hello there,
complete off-topic, sorry about this, but my former idea was to install a CentOS on an old mac mini (PPC!). Disappointed to see that PowerPC is not a supported architecture and that non ARM or Intel architecture are not managed by recent distros.. :-(.
Searching the web, I see very few possibilities to install a recent (I need gnome2) GNU/Linux distro on such hardware. I gave Linux MintPPC 11 (http://www.mintppc.org/content/list-macs) a try, but the netinstall iso simply fails in installing a boot loader that conserves the original OS/X partition even after many tries and workarounds.
Any hint or experience would be welcome?
Regards,
-- wwp
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