While there are several builds of 'linux' or unix that could be run in certain Apple environs (hardware)
the names and conditions are detailed enough to consider further and in-depth study prior to being
My original testbed was a Late 2005 2.3 GHz Power Mac G5 Dual with 3 GB of RAM and two hard drives, one with OS X 10.4 Tiger, the other with OS X 10.5 Leopard.It's my most powerful PowerPC Mac, so I figured it would be a good way to take Linux for a spin. Step one is to choose your distribution. His PowerMac G5 v2 with the PPC970 is dual-core and clocks up to 2.0GHz. This Apple computer has 2GB of RAM, NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra graphics, and was running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with the Linux 4.4 kernel and GCC 5.4 compiler. I, unfortunately, have no physical access to any PowerPC hardware at all. Apple Power Mac G5 Linux Ubuntu Mate 16 04 - Install and Test Linux Ubuntu Mate 16.04 PPC ISO - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/16.04/release/. Yellow Dog Linux on Power Mac G5. Eugenia Loli 2004-08-03 Linux 19 Comments. The IBM PowerPC 970 CPUs are well-designed, high-performance chips that ship in millions of end-user systems under Apple Computers' Power Macintosh G5 moniker. These CPUs greatly lower the bar for 64-bit computing on the desktop and on small servers. Getting the Revival on for Your PowerPC Mac Running Linux What you need to get started depends on what type of optical drive you have in your G4- or G5-based PowerBook or Mac.
fully (experimentally) committed to the installation and attempted use of any specific version.
Ubuntu, Debian, Mint PPC, and others offer possibilities; and may require much more command-line
use to access their features than the graphic user interface of Mac OS X (or earlier OS 9).
While I've read about these differing systems and how they could be used in Apple architecture
I've not used any of them; but do have a sprinkling of Mac OS from early version 1985 on and
lesser so with 'windows' PC. Not sure, but there are several places to study the topic online and
you may find a good offline book to backup the internet to use with experimental versions.
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