On Wed, Jan 11, 2023, at 1:02 PM, Bob Crochelt wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 09:59:48AM +0100, didier gaumet wrote:
>> Le mardi 10 janvier 2023 à 16:32 -0800, Bob Crochelt a écrit :
>> > >
>> > Thanks to all who replied. I appreciate the help and advice. Think
>> > I
>> > will just sit tight with the system, as it works fine for what I
>> > need:
>> > email, a little (slow surfing) and some note writing.
>> >
>> > I imagine you have saved me many hours of frustration.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Bob Crochelt
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> That would leave you with unmaintained software, though, with obvious
>> risks accessing the internet (web, mail, etc...)
>>
>> Debian port for a Powerbook G4 is unofficial and I don't know the
>> actual state of this port.
>>
>> NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD all seem to have an active and official
>> port for the PowerPC G4.
>>
>>
> Thanks for this information. I was aware that Jessie is not maintained;
> that was the reason for my inquiry. I will look into your suggestions
> Regards
> Bob Crochelt
What I have isn't a powerbook, it's a PowerMac G4 Silver, which may or may-not
make a difference.
In any case, it runs fine on "sid". Here's what /proc/cpuinfo says about it:
processor : 0
cpu : 7410, altivec supported
temperature : 35-37 C (uncalibrated)
clock : 533.333332MHz
revision : 1.3 (pvr 800c 1103)
bogomips : 66.58
timebase : 33290001
platform : PowerMac
model : PowerMac3,4
machine : PowerMac3,4
motherboard : PowerMac3,4 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
detected as : 69 (PowerMac G4 Silver)
pmac flags : 00000010
L2 cache : 1024K unified
pmac-generation : NewWorld
Memory : 1536 MB
And "uname -a" says:
Linux dillserver 6.0.0-6-powerpc #1 Debian 6.0.12-1 (2022-12-09) ppc
GNU/Linux
Rick