On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Michael Needham <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Britt et al: > > I agree, I just last week acquired a G5 PowerMac and it is my MAIN > machine. I use TenFourFox as the browser and I had a handful of Mac Apps I > purchased over a few years and some actually are still developed as > "Universal" apps which means they still run under my 10.5 system. <snip> > > So I think the PPC is quite viable at this time. I hope to get at least a > couple of years out of my G5! > > The state of Linux on PPC is a little "mostly cloudy" at the moment. Fedora has been focusing on development and getting Fedora to run on POWER servers (ppc64 with IBM subsystems, etc). The last version of Fedora that was fully supported on ppc32 (POWER) and pmac (G3,G4+) was Fedora 12. Fedora is targeting renewed POWER support for Fedora 17, which will in turn eventually become RHEL7, with pmac following in its footsteps. Right now I have 2 G4 powerbooks, a G4 and G5 XServe and a few 603 machines. I've been doing gentoo builds on the G4 XServe which run remarkably well (boots in under 20 seconds, etc), so once I get some other projects out of the way, i'm going to install the testing version of Fedora on a few of these machines and start contributing back to PowerPC. -- ----- You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/
