Regarding package issues, you had 30 not upgraded packages in one screen. Maybe a apt full-upgrade could have helped. Probably the package you wanted to install just needed the new versions of libraries that weren't updated yet.. Just a wild guess
@@SockyNoob In a way, it is. But remember that Debian sid is rolling, and there have been Sidux and Siduction as separate rolling distributions based on it in the past.
The issue with your gpu is that you might be using the legacy branch of the radeon driver you could try making a conf file in the X11 folder to tell the kernel load the amdgpu driver instead but that would depend on if that gpu is compatible with the amdgpu driver which it might not be since it's an older amd graphics card the archwiki has all the info about this and most of what is listed on that wiki works on other distros as well
That gpu is way to old for amdgpu, it uses the radeon driver, amdgpu only supports GCN 1.0 and newer gpus (e.g many radeon HD 7000 series) which are like 8 years newer. It is barely new enough to be still supported by up to date mesa though and it's worth installing a very up to date version of mesa if possible as there is actually passionate guy working on improving r300 driver for these very old radeon cards. (THe pre-dx9 ati cards are not and only supported by the buggy mesa-amber legacy branch so don't work nearly as well on modern linux for anything graphics acceleration)
@@olnnn Correct. Even my Radeon HD 6970 can only use the radeon driver, and it's five years newer than what is in that G5. But getting the latest Mesa going might fix whatever is wrong here.
We Powermac users need new options in keeping old hardware up and running. Glad to see at least one more great option still out there. Thanks Sean for sharing this with us. Keep the great video's coming.
I had this PPC iMac. Used it on mac os for a long while then switched to Ubuntu Mate till version 16 when they dropped support. I think i was using this till 2018 and then donated it. the b43 fw cutter wifi issue has plagued all macs with broadcom chips even intel ones. but lots of guides online on how to fix it. This thing was a beast. I remember we turned off the screen and used it as a NAS at one point. Great memories.
Thanks for the video! I have a G4 iMac I need to replace the HDD in and I couldn’t decide if I wanted to go with old Mac OS or try PPC Linux. This distro looks great for making an old desktop marginally useful 20 years later.
First: Casey rocks. This is a great service to the PPC community. Secondly, it would be great if Fienix offered some NVIDIA proprietary drivers (or if the development environment worked so that drivers could be installed manually). Nouveau doesn't quite do it for most Mac compatible cards.
Eh? This is powerpc, big endian machine. I do not think Nvidia's proprietary driver was ever ported to that (macos x driver also probably quite different from linux one ...) one problem with nouveau was different non-4k page size set for most Linux kernels back when ppc was supported architecture. There of course might be another set of gremlins because according to at least one Nouveau developer Ilia Mirkin (who implemented a lot of video decoding /reverse engineering on x86 for nv30/40 gpus - geforce 5200/6xxx series ) - those gpus had only partial support for big endian operations .. so much fun for driver writer .. too much for one, evidently
Linux driver still mostly binary object, and I am fairly sure does have few simplifications when it comes to commonicating with gpu. On LE machines you send 4321 to card On BE machines you send 1234 easy to deal if you only ever talk to one register, but there are many, many of them, not counting PCI apertures for accesing VRAM directly from cpu side ... Older Nvidia had some hardware byteswapping built-in, but you must configure it separately. Unfortunately, even simple TNT GPU from year 1999 was too complex to fully undeestand/emulate. Full drivers for PS3 (Also powerpc + nv40 alike GPU) never materialized, even if RPCS3 emulator now run games ... gpu driver development is hard, esp. if your error just hang everything hard way.
powerpcliberation.blogspot.com/2015/07/g5-nouveau-2d-acceleration.html?m=1 on nouveau/G5 situation back in 2015 ....g4 might not suffer from this,soecifically? But as evidenced by Hackintosh community late Apple had interesting habit of hardcoding gpu output table into their AMD driver, so many non-apple gpu cards ended up sending their output to /dev/null ... may be some blackscreen issues actually of this nature?
2:13 Another distribution that supports PowerPC and an obscene amount of other CPU architectures and hardware is T2 SDE Linux. Quite unknown even though it has been here for decades, and it is still actively maintained.
Hey! im a a fan of old imac and i get nostalgic about them, i would like to revive them as they are falling into obsolescence but i dont know how to burn linux onto a cd or dvd could you make a video tutorial on it?
Hmm. Maybe I'll give that Linux distro a shot on one of my G5 towers. After all, winter is coming up, a little extra heat in the office won't hurt much.
8:00 Textures weren't missing so much as... all facing away from you for some reason? Yeah it looks like all the normals in the game are flipped. Some weird thing in the build?
At first glance it looks like backface culling applied to front facing polygons, but this would likely result in no graphics being displayed at all. Moreover, it seems to mostly affect nearby polygons. At 8:04, almost no polygons are missing. I'm wondering if a driver bug is causing this; the drivers for this GPU haven't seen much maintenance recently, at least as far as I know, even less so on ppc/ppc64.
And the glitchy graphics on SuperTuxKart kind of confirm the driver issues. But hey, I'm not complaining about the impromptu unlicensed Boundary Break episode!
I got that exact model for free from a trash pile on the side of the road. Almost none of the distros I’ve tried, other than one specific Ubuntu release have worked, so I guess now I know what I should put on it
I know you won't answer as usual, but I'm glad you gave space to this beautiful distro. I have used it for almost a year on my G5 dual 4gb ram, and I must say that as an experience it is certainly more refined than debian vanilla. That said, there are many issues that have prevented me from fully enjoying it as an office workstation. First of all, DE cinnamon is very slow, and honestly this affects the experience. Then, I was absolutely unable to get the digital signature I need to work (Arubakey) to work. It's just a shame.
The problem with installing Java was that it was also going to install the latest trusted root certificates, but that package says it needs the Ubuntu-tweaked Java and you were installing regular Java. Which is super weird. Based on what I saw on your screen, the problem with installing build-essential is that the GNU compiler suite doesn't have a default PPC build anymore; you may need to use a different name to install it and then convince dpkg that that really is GCC, GPP, etc.
I have an iMac G5 A1058 17in version. I've been using it as a doorstop in my bathroom to prevent the door from blowing shut when the windows are open. Maybe I'll find a replacement doorstop for an afternoon lol.
@@corylyon545 I still think most desktop software is better performing and feature-laden than SAAS. Not only that, but the old buy once and use till you feel like upgrading or migrating was fantastic too.
I installed this after last time's video Sean on my MDD Twin 1.42Ghz on a fresh SSD and stock GPU but after install I just got a black screen during the boot. I followed the instructions on the Blogspot web page for ATI GPU but didn't sort the issue. Seeing how you've had some GPU issues too, I don't feel so bad now however at least you got to the GUI interface. I won't give up on it because it's great to see a Linux distro for PowerPC and it looks pretty darned cool.
Tumbleweed wont work as support has long since been dropped from PowerPC Big Endian. PowerPC G5 support was dropped in 12.1. All work on the Power build is targeting the Power 8 and 9 architectures which are Little Endian. All the apple PowerPC processors are based on Power 3-4. I hope this helps.
Is there a proprietary video driver available maybe? Probably not for PPC but maybe since it would have had that originally? I've got two dual-cpu G4 Powermacs here.. I'm gunna try Fienix.
I bought an imac a1058 for $50 last week. It powers on but stays at the mac os 10 boot screen forever. Now I get to take it apart and spruce it up like you did this one. It's the 17" version, not 20" unfortunately but still something fun to play with.
I just got done trying to run Fienix on my A1095 PowerBook G4. But my lower ram slot is dead. Blank screen for four hours. I'd like the option to drop to a terminal instead of trying to load straight into light_dm
8:52 you should be able to use yt-dlp and any media player (i think? personally i use mpv) to play youtube videos as a stream without needing to download the video first. not sure how a powerpc will handle it, but it should be the most lightweight way to watch youtube if formats aren't an issue.
Hrm, Debian based Linux on G5. Just curious - does it support VA-API libs? Not necessarily on this iMac, may be on MacPro G5. Theoretically is there are proper GPU drivers with h264 video decode acceleration? Firefox can be forced to use vaapi for video decode In some... bizarre rig one may can even try Broadcom Crystall HD video decoder (if libs available today).
I would assume that the Linux distros that still support PPC will also support the newer-ish Amigas from Acube or A-EON so thats useful too as AmigaOS is ?discontinued
I have one of these macs, but not another mac to do target-disk mode on. So Linux looks pretty good for an install. I also have the core duo mini mac, but it's in pieces and I probably won't be putting it back together. Sure do miss it though!
Can you please tell me if there is any way to run Java 11 or higher on any PowerPC based Mac. I searched all over the internet and I couldn't find any solution.
Thought I would give Fienix one last go after it not working well on my G4 Mac Mini now after seeing Seans video I figured it would work seeing as I have the same iMac G5 however I keep running into yaboot installation failure wondering if Sean had this issue and if he knows of a fix the only thing I could find online was to install grub but that fails as well!!
Fienix still doesn't support the Radeon x1900 in my G5 quad. It does, however, "work" with Adelie... just needs some open firmware persuasion to get going.
@@ibobeko4309 Its been a little while since I used it and it appears to totally messed up. Apps don't open, commands entered in terminal aren't found, i'm no longer in the sudoers file, su doesn't work... BUT all the man pages seem to work. It does ship with an older version of Firefox that did work... but youtube played better in Leopard (better drivers I guess). It took quite a while to get Adelie working and I don't really wanna do it again. I tried Fienix again on my quad and it still doesn't work... even with the stock geforce 6600 card. Doesn't boot my dual G4 with radeon 7000/9800 either. After today's failure with Adelie I just want something that works.
YT vids to VLC or MPV is a perfect way to watch vids on old hardware on Linux. DLing YT vids may be against the TOS of TH-cam but I think it should be given a pass if you are poor with a computer like this and it's your only option.
One man’s e-waste is another man’s e-treasure
or just e-waste
Installed this on a dual-core PowerMac G5. Smoothest Linux install on PPC in my experience. Fast and responsive - thanks for featuring this district.
Regarding package issues, you had 30 not upgraded packages in one screen. Maybe a apt full-upgrade could have helped. Probably the package you wanted to install just needed the new versions of libraries that weren't updated yet.. Just a wild guess
I was thinking the same thing. Fienix seemed to be rolling, so if that's true, that is what you should be doing anyway.
@@CFWhitman strange to have a rolling release based on Debian lol
@@SockyNoob In a way, it is. But remember that Debian sid is rolling, and there have been Sidux and Siduction as separate rolling distributions based on it in the past.
The issue with your gpu is that you might be using the legacy branch of the radeon driver
you could try making a conf file in the X11 folder to tell the kernel load the amdgpu driver instead but that would depend on if that gpu is compatible with the amdgpu driver which it might not be since it's an older amd graphics card
the archwiki has all the info about this and most of what is listed on that wiki works on other distros as well
That gpu is way to old for amdgpu, it uses the radeon driver, amdgpu only supports GCN 1.0 and newer gpus (e.g many radeon HD 7000 series) which are like 8 years newer. It is barely new enough to be still supported by up to date mesa though and it's worth installing a very up to date version of mesa if possible as there is actually passionate guy working on improving r300 driver for these very old radeon cards. (THe pre-dx9 ati cards are not and only supported by the buggy mesa-amber legacy branch so don't work nearly as well on modern linux for anything graphics acceleration)
@@olnnn Correct. Even my Radeon HD 6970 can only use the radeon driver, and it's five years newer than what is in that G5.
But getting the latest Mesa going might fix whatever is wrong here.
We Powermac users need new options in keeping old hardware up and running. Glad to see at least one more great option still out there. Thanks Sean for sharing this with us. Keep the great video's coming.
Hell yeah
FEIN LINUX ? THATS WHAT AM TALKING ABOUT 🔥
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@Xlib_2000 feiiinn feiin feeiin yeah
travis scott linux
Real
Love this channel. I have an old iMac G4 at home somewhere. Must give this distro a shot!
Eventually, it is the famous last word of people everywhere. But Fienix is what I'm going to to to my G5 Imac, eventually.
I am currently looking at my mac thinking "will install flenix later"
I had this PPC iMac. Used it on mac os for a long while then switched to Ubuntu Mate till version 16 when they dropped support. I think i was using this till 2018 and then donated it. the b43 fw cutter wifi issue has plagued all macs with broadcom chips even intel ones. but lots of guides online on how to fix it. This thing was a beast. I remember we turned off the screen and used it as a NAS at one point. Great memories.
You should do a series of trying to run Minecraft on as many Macs as possible - see how many can!
Yeah a Mac LAN party would be fun to watch!
I think classicube will be a lot better and easier , just imagine run classicube on as many pcs / mac's as possible
More like see what can't
That's literally just this channel though, he's tested Minecraft on pretty much anything that will run it
@@4ngeldus739 wish he did a little more then mac's tho, like to see how he can modernize an old 95 rig or something
I have the exact same G5 iMac (had no idea it was rare, either) and so obviously I'm going to give Fienix a try, thanks
Me either I have the same machine too.
The real rate one is the version of this with the CF card reader.
@@Sparky400 mine has that too 👍
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I think that originally is a Raspberry Pi OS based in Ubuntu, thanks a lot for the effort to bring something new that old is, that is so and stay so
P.A. Semi's PWRficient G5 might've kept the G5 going in mobile form for a little longer, but it was too little too late in 2007
this was so cool to watch especially as i am watching this on a 2005 thinkpad g41 with a desktop cpu and 768mb of ram.
Thanks for the video! I have a G4 iMac I need to replace the HDD in and I couldn’t decide if I wanted to go with old Mac OS or try PPC Linux. This distro looks great for making an old desktop marginally useful 20 years later.
Hmm I'm liking the new series - hopefully that 4 GB stick arrrives soon!!
Your channel is why I'm considering getting an older Power PC Mac....
Damned you sean! I don't have the money for this!
hah!
Start a gofund me . 😂
Power Mac G5s go for about 30-50 bucks here where I live
@@pretty_bored Sheesh . . . I haven't seen one around here in ten years to try to buy!
First: Casey rocks. This is a great service to the PPC community. Secondly, it would be great if Fienix offered some NVIDIA proprietary drivers (or if the development environment worked so that drivers could be installed manually). Nouveau doesn't quite do it for most Mac compatible cards.
Eh? This is powerpc, big endian machine. I do not think Nvidia's proprietary driver was ever ported to that (macos x driver also probably quite different from linux one ...)
one problem with nouveau was different non-4k page size set for most Linux kernels back when ppc was supported architecture. There of course might be another set of gremlins because according to at least one Nouveau developer Ilia Mirkin (who implemented a lot of video decoding /reverse engineering on x86 for nv30/40 gpus - geforce 5200/6xxx series ) - those gpus had only partial support for big endian operations .. so much fun for driver writer .. too much for one, evidently
@@andrewrandrianasulu_ One should be able to compile the Linux driver for the PPC, no?
Linux driver still mostly binary object, and I am fairly sure does have few simplifications when it comes to commonicating with gpu.
On LE machines you send 4321 to card
On BE machines you send 1234
easy to deal if you only ever talk to one register, but there are many, many of them, not counting PCI apertures for accesing VRAM directly from cpu side ...
Older Nvidia had some hardware byteswapping built-in, but you must configure it separately. Unfortunately, even simple TNT GPU from year 1999 was too complex to fully undeestand/emulate. Full drivers for PS3 (Also powerpc + nv40 alike GPU) never materialized, even if RPCS3 emulator now run games ...
gpu driver development is hard, esp. if your error just hang everything hard way.
powerpcliberation.blogspot.com/2015/07/g5-nouveau-2d-acceleration.html?m=1
on nouveau/G5 situation back in 2015 ....g4 might not suffer from this,soecifically? But as evidenced by Hackintosh community late Apple had interesting habit of hardcoding gpu output table into their AMD driver, so many non-apple gpu cards ended up sending their output to /dev/null ... may be some blackscreen issues actually of this nature?
I had a similar experience with Debian 12 PPC on my G4 PowerBook. So many packages missing...
2:13 Another distribution that supports PowerPC and an obscene amount of other CPU architectures and hardware is T2 SDE Linux. Quite unknown even though it has been here for decades, and it is still actively maintained.
Wow, thanks for the tip! Setting up the download now!
Hey! im a a fan of old imac and i get nostalgic about them, i would like to revive them as they are falling into obsolescence but i dont know how to burn linux onto a cd or dvd could you make a video tutorial on it?
Really love those extremely deep bass "thuds" in the outro. They sound awesome on my speakers. oh yea!
T2 still supports powerpc
and pretty much everything the kernel drops
6:13 Perfect time for a segue featuring a sponsor protecting you from getting on to phishing websites by mistyping the link. 😎
Nice job, as always!
Fein fein fein fein fein fein 🔥🔥
The architecture isnt quite dead yet. I have to work on PowerPC based SBCs at work and this project looks like it might be useful in development.
Hmm. Maybe I'll give that Linux distro a shot on one of my G5 towers. After all, winter is coming up, a little extra heat in the office won't hurt much.
8:00 Textures weren't missing so much as... all facing away from you for some reason? Yeah it looks like all the normals in the game are flipped. Some weird thing in the build?
At first glance it looks like backface culling applied to front facing polygons, but this would likely result in no graphics being displayed at all. Moreover, it seems to mostly affect nearby polygons. At 8:04, almost no polygons are missing. I'm wondering if a driver bug is causing this; the drivers for this GPU haven't seen much maintenance recently, at least as far as I know, even less so on ppc/ppc64.
And the glitchy graphics on SuperTuxKart kind of confirm the driver issues. But hey, I'm not complaining about the impromptu unlicensed Boundary Break episode!
I got that exact model for free from a trash pile on the side of the road. Almost none of the distros I’ve tried, other than one specific Ubuntu release have worked, so I guess now I know what I should put on it
I know you won't answer as usual, but I'm glad you gave space to this beautiful distro. I have used it for almost a year on my G5 dual 4gb ram, and I must say that as an experience it is certainly more refined than debian vanilla. That said, there are many issues that have prevented me from fully enjoying it as an office workstation. First of all, DE cinnamon is very slow, and honestly this affects the experience. Then, I was absolutely unable to get the digital signature I need to work (Arubakey) to work. It's just a shame.
The problem with installing Java was that it was also going to install the latest trusted root certificates, but that package says it needs the Ubuntu-tweaked Java and you were installing regular Java. Which is super weird.
Based on what I saw on your screen, the problem with installing build-essential is that the GNU compiler suite doesn't have a default PPC build anymore; you may need to use a different name to install it and then convince dpkg that that really is GCC, GPP, etc.
Crazy it's already been decades! Crazy!
13:37 I love messing around with that kind of hardware. I used to have one of those but with the Core2 Duo not the Power PC processor.
How now, that's a screenshot of Gentoo on x86-64!
You said "torturing it with linux" but I think you meant that you "have graced it with Linux"
Fienix is impressive, make kind of wished I had my old G5 iMac still around.
Thinking about putting this on my 20" iMac G4 lampshade
here is some weird distros based on debian I've tried recently:
Antix, MX linux, and q4os.
I really do like the trinity desktop.
Sweet video, as usual 😎
I have an iMac G5 A1058 17in version. I've been using it as a doorstop in my bathroom to prevent the door from blowing shut when the windows are open. Maybe I'll find a replacement doorstop for an afternoon lol.
Why does it seem that software back then was both easier and more "funner" to use?
Because software as a service hadn't taken over yet. Consumers actually expected to have real productivity suites.
@@corylyon545 I still think most desktop software is better performing and feature-laden than SAAS. Not only that, but the old buy once and use till you feel like upgrading or migrating was fantastic too.
I installed this after last time's video Sean on my MDD Twin 1.42Ghz on a fresh SSD and stock GPU but after install I just got a black screen during the boot. I followed the instructions on the Blogspot web page for ATI GPU but didn't sort the issue. Seeing how you've had some GPU issues too, I don't feel so bad now however at least you got to the GUI interface. I won't give up on it because it's great to see a Linux distro for PowerPC and it looks pretty darned cool.
I find modern linux to be fantastic with printers and scanners! It even handles scanning from my ancient canon mx860 with no need to install anything.
Tumbleweed wont work as support has long since been dropped from PowerPC Big Endian. PowerPC G5 support was dropped in 12.1. All work on the Power build is targeting the Power 8 and 9 architectures which are Little Endian. All the apple PowerPC processors are based on Power 3-4. I hope this helps.
Is there a proprietary video driver available maybe? Probably not for PPC but maybe since it would have had that originally? I've got two dual-cpu G4 Powermacs here.. I'm gunna try Fienix.
Fein, Fein, Fein
I will keep my eye on this project because I also have this same computer that I would like to use to stream music !
I have a g5 imac in my garage i use to keep inventory of all my crap. It couldnt play youtube videos a decade ago either.
I bought an imac a1058 for $50 last week. It powers on but stays at the mac os 10 boot screen forever. Now I get to take it apart and spruce it up like you did this one. It's the 17" version, not 20" unfortunately but still something fun to play with.
I've got a G5 quad I'll try this on.
Will Fienix Linux run on a modern Raptor computing power 9 processor reliably? Could you do a video testing / demonstrating that?
Would be interesting to see if you can build Yocto images for these older PCs.
I want more Haiku videos :)
I second this!!
I just got done trying to run Fienix on my A1095 PowerBook G4. But my lower ram slot is dead. Blank screen for four hours. I'd like the option to drop to a terminal instead of trying to load straight into light_dm
8:52 you should be able to use yt-dlp and any media player (i think? personally i use mpv) to play youtube videos as a stream without needing to download the video first. not sure how a powerpc will handle it, but it should be the most lightweight way to watch youtube if formats aren't an issue.
Can you make an Apple TV with A5 into a small computer? Is there a Linux that can run on it?
A Blogspot site? It sounds so retro
Hrm, Debian based Linux on G5. Just curious - does it support VA-API libs? Not necessarily on this iMac, may be on MacPro G5.
Theoretically is there are proper GPU drivers with h264 video decode acceleration? Firefox can be forced to use vaapi for video decode
In some... bizarre rig one may can even try Broadcom Crystall HD video decoder (if libs available today).
>Literally nothing works, but it prints
Totally usable! 😀🖐
I would assume that the Linux distros that still support PPC will also support the newer-ish Amigas from Acube or A-EON so thats useful too as AmigaOS is ?discontinued
Do you know if this will work on PPC laptops like the iBooks and Powerbooks? There are a lot of those where I live.
Another fun project would be to fit a mini pc in that case and essentially make your own all in one
Thank you.
I wonder if MorphOS could be persuaded to run on this machine?
I'm very new to Linux. Where did you learn all the stuff you know? I just bought some books, but haven't received them yet. Hopefully they'll help me.
Try it in a virtual machine, break stuff, fix stuff, repeat
I have one of these macs, but not another mac to do target-disk mode on. So Linux looks pretty good for an install. I also have the core duo mini mac, but it's in pieces and I probably won't be putting it back together. Sure do miss it though!
I installed Fienix a year ago on my iMac G5. I think there was no arcticfox around then.
You did not install those brocken fils when booted first time (firmware?)
Impressive what the Linux community brings to the table. 20 year old hardware still having life.
mac86: all i see you do is install linux and make computers cry
When are you going to do the emac video that you was fixing
I had similar issues with this GPU back then, but on windows xp and Pentium 4. I don't know exactly what it is, maybe vram
What is the magic tool he is using to download TH-cam easily? Neat! Love this Linux, does it perform decent on g3 / g4?
Do you know which distro would work best for the 2006 model core2duo 17’? It’d be awesome to be able to use mine again
I have a couple of Powerbooks here, does it work on G4?
Would this work on an IMac G4? I want to update it to SSD, max ram, latest best OS if possible.
What is the name/link for the TH-cam downloader????
I am pretty sure linux AMD GPU drivers/Mesa have long standing PPC-BE bugs causing the graphical glitches you experienced in 3D?
It's kind of crazy that all intel macs are capable of running Windows 10
It would be cool if you could try out T2/sde linux
I'm always down for exploring Linux distros! I am crazy enough to daily drive Ubuntu Studio, after all...
I thought Fienix was eol, and support/updates had stopped - at least that's how it was at the start of the year, has the situation changed now? :D
I wonder if similar efforts have been made for the earlier 90s Macs
Anyone know if you can run mac software under this OS?
Im thinking of games made for PPC Macs.
Can you please tell me if there is any way to run Java 11 or higher on any PowerPC based Mac. I searched all over the internet and I couldn't find any solution.
Does it support graphics acceleration though? 🧐
Thought I would give Fienix one last go after it not working well on my G4 Mac Mini now after seeing Seans video I figured it would work seeing as I have the same iMac G5 however I keep running into yaboot installation failure wondering if Sean had this issue and if he knows of a fix the only thing I could find online was to install grub but that fails as well!!
My 550 pn titamiun will do?
Fienix still doesn't support the Radeon x1900 in my G5 quad. It does, however, "work" with Adelie... just needs some open firmware persuasion to get going.
which browser can you use on Adelie and does TH-cam work ?
@@ibobeko4309 Its been a little while since I used it and it appears to totally messed up. Apps don't open, commands entered in terminal aren't found, i'm no longer in the sudoers file, su doesn't work... BUT all the man pages seem to work. It does ship with an older version of Firefox that did work... but youtube played better in Leopard (better drivers I guess). It took quite a while to get Adelie working and I don't really wanna do it again.
I tried Fienix again on my quad and it still doesn't work... even with the stock geforce 6600 card. Doesn't boot my dual G4 with radeon 7000/9800 either. After today's failure with Adelie I just want something that works.
Just curious, how's the cursed Macintosh, did you get it fixed? Also nice video
Oh great another distro I need to try put on my G5 iMac 😅😂
nice
This linux distro makes this computer actually very usable, i'm surprised!
The 3D graphics are very fast at being wrong!
Can you try this distro on the quad core PowerMac G5 lol
How is this rate. I have 8 27" g5 in my attic. Also this is peak macos with this beautiful wallpaper
Try with Java 17, it is LTS. 18 is not. Or even 23, it launched on September this year
id love to have a g5 quad machine
YT vids to VLC or MPV is a perfect way to watch vids on old hardware on Linux. DLing YT vids may be against the TOS of TH-cam but I think it should be given a pass if you are poor with a computer like this and it's your only option.