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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Linux Questions Thread: a bunch of pitfalls, but technically it's possible
 
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Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

 ive got an old powerbook g5 thats still running, kinda was thinking about replacing OSX with something lightweight that can handle youtube, internet browsing, and discord (browser mode is fine).


I have no other uses or needs for the system, just wanted something i can throw next to me when im playing games online to chat or play videos. Any recommendations?

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Nostalgia4Butts
Jun 1, 2006

WHERE MY HOSE DRINKERS AT

CaptainSarcastic posted:

It's been years since I played with a PPC-based system. About 10 years ago I had good luck with the PPC spin of openSUSE (I think that might have actually been the first time I actually ran openSUSE at all).

At this point I'm not sure what distros have PPC versions available, be they official or unofficial.

If memory serves the biggest thing it was missing was Flash, but that's so deprecated it doesn't seem like a big issue compared to how much of a problem it was at the time.

You could always scrounge up an old image of Yellow Dog. I never had a good experience with Yellow Dog even when it was current.

Fake edit: I did a quick search and it looks Ubuntu doesn't have a recent PPC build, but it looks like openSUSE does.

https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:PowerPC

I'm not sure, but it might be possible to find a BSD to install on PPC, too, but I didn't look extensively.

taqueso posted:

netbsd will do it

thanks so much for the advice, I'll poke around a bit more. Another friend recommended Puppy Linux- any thoughts?

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Linux Questions Thread: a bunch of pitfalls, but technically it's possible