Chris Mauritz wrote:
The 32bit PPC release is for the older G3/G4 macs, no? I've got a pile of unused G4 400-800mhz powermacs just sitting around
The ppc32 distro will work on any NewWorld G3, G4 based machine ( and 32bit ibm power, like the older rs6k's ) - it _also_ works fine on the MacMini and G4 Xserve's.
With some common sense tweaks, a G4 450Mhz is a very usable machine running CentOS4 in 386MB of ram. Much more usable than OSX Tiger.
that I'd love to get some use out of, but I don't think they'd be very responsive with OSX tiger.
how much of Ram do these machines have ? if its anything >=256 megs, you have very functional and usable desktop machines there.
My children's school has a lab full of Macs so I'm wondering if I donated the machines, installed CentOS and then volunteered some time each week to train someone how to maintain them, that might be better than having them collect dust at the office.
Sounds like a plan, go for it - if you have any issues, feel free to drop a message here or come find us on #centos-ppc / #centos on irc.freenode.net
As for PPC64, has anyone done benchmarking between a ppc64 and OSX system on the same G5 hardware?
Linux wins hands down. I am sitting typing this out on a Dual G5 2ghz, and I find Linux to be much more responsive than OSX.
anandtech had a write-up recently where they compared OSX Server to Linux on the server side of things, iirc correctly - Linux came out on top. A bit of googling should dig up the exact article.
- K