Post Axw7k9h5CHQen64k4m by peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe
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 (DIR) Post #Axw7ee7r8hdPR5yIKG by devwithzachary@androiddev.social
       2025-09-04T12:30:16Z
       
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       It took an embarrassing amount of time, but I was finally able to get Linux installed and running on my old G4 iMac so I can use it as a terminal to access my home servers!#Linux #RetroComputing #PowerPC #iMacG4 #Homelab #SelfHosting #Term #vintagecomputing
       
 (DIR) Post #Axw7k9h5CHQen64k4m by peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe
       2025-09-04T17:36:13Z
       
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       @devwithzachary I miss the #PowerPC days.  Cool architecture.  About 10 years ago I had an old dual G5 given to me.  There were some issues with it and getting #Linux installed and functioning correctly.  I suspect it was more hardware issues.Great use of the old hardware!
       
 (DIR) Post #Axw7qsuzxzKmn0nFA0 by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
       2025-09-06T17:37:45Z
       
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       @peteorrall@bsd.cafe @devwithzachary@androiddev.socialThere are bugs in G5 towers' cooling system kernel module, at least that's what I observe on mine — at some point it considers itself liquid cooled (which it isn't in my case 😅) and that said cooling isn't working properly, so it starts spinning the fans full-speed — which is annoying, but not a deal breaker: can be worked around by removing the corresponding modules and re-inserting them every couple of minutes — doesn't interfere with its normal operation, mine can keep running for hours and it spins up fans only when appropriate.I've also experienced random lockups and reboots in the past, but I haven't observed anything like it in quite a while — could also be some kernel-level bugs, support for PowerPC machines in the kernel is low-priority, so I expect lots of bugs to be there and no one is fixing them. In my case I'm certain that those aren't hardware issues, because nothing of this sort happens when I boot 10.4 installed on the other hard drive.
       
 (DIR) Post #Axw8MaoaoGNBuSut7o by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
       2025-09-06T17:40:20Z
       
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       @devwithzachary@androiddev.socialThis whole instance is hosted on an old G4 MacMini! 😁Mine's running old PowerPC fork of Void Linux with I few updated things I've built myself.But in your case, considering all the polkit and systemd stuff, I suppose it's something different. What distro is that?
       
 (DIR) Post #AxwIn7iu4ycz2lXqwy by mitchconner@clubcyberia.co
       2025-09-06T19:40:31.485840Z
       
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       @devwithzachary I wonder if yellow dog Linux is still a thing
       
 (DIR) Post #AxwJ0d4SqACm214OGG by cjd@pkteerium.xyz
       2025-09-06T19:42:56.932635Z
       
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       Big endian 💪
       
 (DIR) Post #AxwJK0bHaD4OVaf3ei by mitchconner@clubcyberia.co
       2025-09-06T19:46:28.205353Z
       
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       @m0xEE @devwithzachary I was there, Frodo, when they gave out free booklets with an x86 install cd and a Mac CD, with half naked models
       
 (DIR) Post #AxwJL3dflsbUDpHNuC by devwithzachary@androiddev.social
       2025-09-06T19:46:09Z
       
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       @mitchconner from my hunting no any more
       
 (DIR) Post #AxwJVAtzcbD7e0jltQ by mitchconner@clubcyberia.co
       2025-09-06T19:48:29.684321Z
       
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       @devwithzachary wow today I learned Yellow Dog created YUM
       
 (DIR) Post #Axxa87IGlRuiAgdvzk by devwithzachary@androiddev.social
       2025-09-06T19:45:37Z
       
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       @m0xEE used Adelie linux
       
 (DIR) Post #AydkCndXNx8iTrGD6e by mitchconner@clubcyberia.co
       2025-09-27T18:40:17.627285Z
       
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       @devwithzachary @m0xEE Lol I just spent a fair amount of time digging up this thread to tell you guys about this new distro I found, only to see it's what you used https://pkg.adelielinux.org/ that's some arch support
       
 (DIR) Post #Ayfq3akaulNxwwTQrA by m0xEE@nosh0b10.m0xee.net
       2025-09-28T18:31:19Z
       
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       @mitchconner@clubcyberia.co @devwithzachary@androiddev.socialYeah, Adelie is a decent distro, I'm just not a fan of KDE and some of other choices of theirs. But a lot of development is still happening on PowerPC thanks to A. Wilcox and other Adelie contributors. E.g. I use Void on my PowerPC boxes, but I've built gcc-go 1.10 using Adelie's patch set.