On Sat, October 11, 2014 10:55 am, SilverTip257 wrote:
On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 10:48 AM, dan stoicheff danstoicheff@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone experienced the conversion of the aluminum chassis Mac G5 to a Linux box? Curious in Pennsylvania.
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.
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
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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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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