I have 500mhz and 1.5 ghz G4 PowerBooks and corresponding similar
Powermacs.
I can easily give several examples from my personal experience and my
associates where any of these are too slow
For instance I basicly had just two things I wanted to use with the last
version of Debian stable where I got stuck because my machines were too slow
but I could easily do on a late '06 core2duo $300 MacBook. Java IDE and Krita
to be precise. I tried doing an optimized build of Java for better speed - it
was almost useable, probably fine on a G5 I'd imagine - but after compiling for
hours and hours it was such a complex build and huge filling up my hard drive I
stopped and gave up.
But even so I am considering trying the
Krita build on new Debian stable. Just for something to do and PowerBook can
be left alone to build while I am away at work / study. But if I were serious I
would definitely get a dual G5, they are cheap these days. Power hogs but for
builds much better why suffer
By the way all these G4s I own have 1GB ram
On Aug 27, 2013, at 11:14 PM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> An 800MHz G4 with a stripped down system is plenty "quick enough" for
> development or just about anything not too computationally intensive. I have
> a couple of them that I use for testing.
>
> But an older machine like that can be seriously memory-constrained ("No sane
> person could possible need more than 64K of RAM!" -- designers of the
> original IBM PC) so you have to be extremely carful what software you try to
> run on it. For example, there are packages that aren't available for the
> armel architecture because the build machines run out of memory trying to
> compile them.
>
> Rick
>
> On Aug 27, 2013, at 10:27 PM, Super Bisquit <superbisq...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The iBook g4 had a processor rating between 800 MHz and 1.42 GHz. Now, I ran
>> Debian on an iMac with an 800 MHz processor and a Powermac QuickSilver with
>> a 933 MHz processor with both having a recompiled kernel of 1000 Hz. Unless
>> you are running [too much stuff] on your iBook, it is fast enough for
>> development.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Brian <cymraeg...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How about just someone who will run testing / unstable and submit bug
>> reports and is willing to work with developers testing patches
>>
>> This model not fast enough for general development and with so many models
>> would be unfair to give special attention to one
>>
>>
>> On Aug 25, 2013, at 6:30 AM, Jack Malmostoso <jackmalmost...@sunrise.ch>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear list,
>>>
>>> I have an old iBook G4 800MHz which I don't need anymore, and I was
>>> wondering if some Debian PPC developer would like to have it for
>>> development purposes.
>>>
>>> I have tried to contact the Debian hardware donation email address but
>>> did not get an answer.
>>>
>>> Please let me know if there is any interest, thank you!
>>>
>>>
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