Karanbir Singh wrote:
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.
Cool. I believe all of them (about a dozen machines) have 512mb RAM.
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.
Outstanding! Unfortunately, a few of our dual G5 machines have no choice but to use OSX since they are used as Final Cut Pro and Protools workstations.
Thanks for the information.
Cheers,