I have a 10.4 install DVD but it won't boot due to EFI problems.I might fiddle with UNetbootin to override. There aren't many seeders, it looks like this will take about 10 hours. It is not hard to find a bootable MacOS X 1.4.8 Tiger VMware image, I'm downloading it right now. I am going to prove whether or not you can run Classic PPC apps in a VM. Unlike almost everyone on the internet, I know when it is time to put up or shut up. I have Sheepshaver running on my Mac mini, it runs but it is basically useless since it won't run graphic-intensive games like Carmageddon. I stuck with PPC for ages, my last PPC was a PowerMac G5 Quad 2.5Ghz and my first Intel Mac was my current Mac mini mid-2011. I run it headless, I can run it remotely with screen sharing from Back To My Mac.

So it's been a long time since I ran Classic, even though I have a PowerMac G4 dual 1Ghz MDD 'Wind Tunnel' sitting right next to me with 10.4 installed. My first distro was MKLinux DR3 on a Beige G3 (233 MHz)įollowed by LinuxPPC 1999 and then Yellow Dog Linux 2.0 and finally Fedora. Linux worked very well on Apple PowerPC hardware but I don't know that any mainstream distributions still maintain 32 bit PPC builds.

How easy would it be to make a chromecast bullet proof system on a really old PC or Mac? I know there is 'cloudready' and ars wrote about that, but what about a REALLY old system? Being able to load some version of Linux that will get updates (security and otherwise) and continue to work for a while (say 5+ years?) reasonably is a pretty good thing when all they really are interested in is mail and browsing. It's not unusual for the Grandparents to have a computer for a LONG time. I know Linux works well on older hardware, but I've not REALLY tried to to do the 'old computer' Linux thing in a while. Is it possible to take an old G3 that will not work with OS9, load it up with a distro that it works with and be able to work reasonably (say, without having to re-compile everything?)

I think more interesting would be to see how useful Linux can be on older systems like that G3.

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