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
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