It's that time again. I'm stuck with a bunch of older Powermac G4's that I either need to repurpose or give the heave ho. I've not tried CentOS on Mac hardware before. Would the following config be suitable for a (somewhat slow) workstation?
PowerMac G4 400mhz 256mb RAM 40gig ATA disk Some sort of dual-head ATI video setup with 64mb VRAM (I've forgotten which cards they are)
Cheers,
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Chris Mauritz wrote:
It's that time again. I'm stuck with a bunch of older Powermac G4's that I either need to repurpose or give the heave ho. I've not tried CentOS on Mac hardware before. Would the following config be suitable for a (somewhat slow) workstation?
PowerMac G4 400mhz 256mb RAM 40gig ATA disk Some sort of dual-head ATI video setup with 64mb VRAM (I've forgotten which cards they are)
I once installed CentOS/PPC on an aluminum PowerBook G4. It took some doing, but once everything was in place there were only two obvious shortcomings: power management was largely nonexistent and wireless didn't work. Otherwise, it was fine.
I suspect that, speed aside, your PowerMac will perform just fine. If you plan to run X, extra RAM would probably be a nice addition.
Paul Heinlein wrote:
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Chris Mauritz wrote:
It's that time again. I'm stuck with a bunch of older Powermac G4's that I either need to repurpose or give the heave ho. I've not tried CentOS on Mac hardware before. Would the following config be suitable for a (somewhat slow) workstation?
PowerMac G4 400mhz 256mb RAM 40gig ATA disk Some sort of dual-head ATI video setup with 64mb VRAM (I've forgotten which cards they are)
I once installed CentOS/PPC on an aluminum PowerBook G4. It took some doing, but once everything was in place there were only two obvious shortcomings: power management was largely nonexistent and wireless didn't work. Otherwise, it was fine.
I suspect that, speed aside, your PowerMac will perform just fine. If you plan to run X, extra RAM would probably be a nice addition.
That's good to know.
It's gotta work better than MacOS 9 that's on there now. 8-)
Cheers,
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 16:47 -0400, Chris Mauritz wrote:
It's that time again. I'm stuck with a bunch of older Powermac G4's that I either need to repurpose or give the heave ho. I've not tried CentOS on Mac hardware before. Would the following config be suitable for a (somewhat slow) workstation?
IMO, very useful. I had LFS 2.6.x kernel on a PC-Chips M-571 w/K6-III (380MHz), 256MB, couple of ATA HDs (1 was 10K rpm Deskstar(?)), small PCI Radeon video. Could do a complete from scratch build (utils, toolchain, kernel, all utils, ... ) ready to start BLFS (Gnome... and all the bells and whistles) in appx. 6 and 1/2 hours. Once I had X and Gnome (BLFS) and all running, I was quite happy with it.
Before with same setup but w/an IBM 6x86-2 (old Cyrix-II) 300MHz, same build was appx 10 hours.
So, a your MAC at 400MHz should do fine... at least for folks like me.
BTW, I would be willing to take some off your hands if the price is right. I found a square foot unused in my home office that is begging to be filled with something other than empty boxes, bits of cable, old 14" monochrome monitors, ... even a 386SX in a micro-tower over there somewhere. 100 mega-byte HD, IIRC. ^^^^
PowerMac G4 400mhz 256mb RAM 40gig ATA disk Some sort of dual-head ATI video setup with 64mb VRAM (I've forgotten which cards they are)
Cheers,
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William L. Maltby wrote:
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 16:47 -0400, Chris Mauritz wrote:
It's that time again. I'm stuck with a bunch of older Powermac G4's that I either need to repurpose or give the heave ho. I've not tried CentOS on Mac hardware before. Would the following config be suitable for a (somewhat slow) workstation?
The CentOS 4.3/ppc is not released as yet - we've run into a few issues with upstream patches and ppc-smp kernels ( upstream has no ppc distro.. ) We *should* have something out soon'ish though.
Before with same setup but w/an IBM 6x86-2 (old Cyrix-II) 300MHz, same build was appx 10 hours.
So, a your MAC at 400MHz should do fine... at least for folks like me.
the G4-400Mhz will give you about the same performance level as a p-III / 800Mhz ... or thereabouts. More Ram will help ... 256megs can get very tight, very fast.
the present build machine thats putting together the CentOS/ppc distro is a G4-450Mhz
Chris Mauritz napsal(a):
It's that time again. I'm stuck with a bunch of older Powermac G4's that I either need to repurpose or give the heave ho. I've not tried CentOS on Mac hardware before. Would the following config be suitable for a (somewhat slow) workstation?
PowerMac G4 400mhz 256mb RAM 40gig ATA disk Some sort of dual-head ATI video setup with 64mb VRAM (I've forgotten which cards they are)
will be fine
I run CentOS 4.0beta on
G3 300MHz 128 MB RAM 6G ATA HDD
an it is ... good for testing ... ;-) I need more RAM
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