Installing Fedora 9 on the Power Mac G4/466 — Part 2
When we left off, Fedora was taking quite a long time to install over the network on this Power Mac G4/466. I returned to the office to find the Fedora 9 install finished. I rebooted. No X. After...
View ArticleHow to get sound out of the PC speaker in Debian Etch on the Power Mac G4/466
To get sound to come out of the front speaker — which isn’t the default, by they way — on the Power Mac G4 (mine is a 466 MHz) while using Debian Etch, open a terminal. run alsamixer: $ alsamixer …...
View ArticleThe Debian Mac needs more memory
I’ve taken to calling my Power Macintosh G4/466 the Debian Mac. I continue to be amazed at how well Debian Etch runs on this thing with 466 MHz of PowerPC CPU and a smallish 128 MB of RAM. (I’ll take …...
View ArticleUpdated: The Debian Mac gets a backup plan
Since the Power Macintosh G4/466 has enough space for four hard drives, I decided to put a second one in the box. I originally planned to dual-boot Debian Etch and OpenBSD, but I still can’t get the...
View ArticleDebian Etch: like a comfortable pair of old shoes
I’ve been running Debian in one form or another, on one box or another, ever since Etch went stable in April 2007. Lately most of my work in Debian has been on my Gateway laptop (aka The $0 Laptop),...
View ArticleI did my first full OS X install today (so clap or something, OK?)
I’ve been contemplating an installation of Mac’s OS X operating system on my old Power Macintosh G4/466 (466 MHz PowerPC CPU, currently 384 MB of RAM but a maximum of 1.5 GB on the motherboard). That...
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