On Sat, October 11, 2014 10:55 am, SilverTip257 wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 10:48 AM, dan stoicheff <danstoicheff at 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. > > [0] > http://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=All&origin=All&basedon=All¬basedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=powerpc&status=Active > [1] > http://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=All&origin=All&basedon=All¬basedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=ppc64&status=Active > > >> >> 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. >> >> The Bears will never win until number six leaves. >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > > -- > ---~~.~~--- > Mike > // SilverTip257 // > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++