General :: Distro For OLD PowerPC Machine?
Jan 12, 2010
i got an old imac powerpc g3 that i want to put into use again:
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it is currently running the mac os (tiger) and still seem to be very slow...
so i am wondering if there is a small and fast ppc linux distro and would run on it? nothing too fancy i don't need the 3d cube but it would be great if it can stream videos videos, use pidgin and firefox... just an internet terminal for guests... which the mac os just doesn't cut it as of now, it is just too slow...
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Mar 25, 2010
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Jan 28, 2011
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From my research I've tried hdparm to change the DMA mode, slower and faster and no luck, removing the .bins in one of the apt folders, and reinstalling debian.I've read the posts I could find on here, and mostly the problem seemed to be intermittent for them. For me it is only when I use apt-get, and now apparently e2fsck(badblocks). It happens every single time with apt, I can't use it to install anything. But i've done plenty of other file operations without a bump.Any suggestions would be most welcome! Especially an in depth explanation of what that message means. I'm happy to do my own research and work, I just have no idea what's going on!
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Jul 14, 2011
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Sep 6, 2010
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I am new using linux and don't have too much experience in terminal, however I am curious and work hard. I have an imac G5 powerpc with 2g processor, 768 mb ram and 232.7g hard disk. I recentrly installed debian 8.0.0 (jessie) with xfce environement. I have three other computers (two with xununtu runing and one with windows) using dropbox to sync all my work in differents places, so I use dropbox to get all synchronized. I don't want to change all the pc's to other cloud service, I would like to install dropbox in this machine.
I installed libnet-dropbox-api-perl, pear-channels and pho-dropbox packages from the synptic package manager with the hope to use dropbox...but I dind't even find something colled dropbox in the pc.
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Jan 27, 2011
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Apr 7, 2010
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Jun 29, 2010
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