Look underneath it- it should say how many mhz the processor is.
If it's a slotloading machine with firewire, it should run 10.4 tiger.
If you're going to use it for anything, look up how much memory it can take,
and max it out. The more memory it has, the more tolerable it is to work
with.
NeoOffi
You might also check with the fink and macports folks. Some of them may
already be working on it.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Christian Wacker wrote:
> ...
> I have booted linux before from my iMac, but I've never compiled
> anything, and I'm curious to know what (if anything) will go wrong
You might be better off trying to install Debian instead of Ubuntu- the
Debian distro is still active. We had lots of trouble getting Xubuntu
working on 1Ghz G4 eMacs. We had to go with an older version, and if we
updated it it died.
The Debian install did take some messing around. It originally b