On Sat, October 11, 2014 10:55 am, SilverTip257 wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 10:48 AM, dan stoicheff <danstoicheff@xxxxxxxxx>
> 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.
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