In 2014, my uncle gave me his old #PowerMac #G5 as he bought a new #Mac for pro video work. There was some kind of hardware issue with it, IIRC.
I had one helluva time getting #Debian installed on it. It kept failing to install the boot loader, which wasn't #GRUB. Anyway, I figured I would install #FreeBSD. It installed fine, booted fine, performance was fine, NIC supported, but....
It was a Tier 2 architecture. At that time FreeBSD, while supporting multiple ISAs, prioritized them in terms of support with x86-64 being Tier 1. Tier 2 doesn't have nearly the same level of support from the FreeBSD team.
In my case with the G5 only ports, not packages, were available. EVERYTHING had to be compiled and installed. Aside from some shells and other CLI tools, builds took ages and often failed.
Here's more info about the tiers.
Il y a 20 ans je venais de recevoir mon tout premier #Mac, un #iMac #G5 et je suivais les #JO depuis mon Mac grâce à #EyeTV, JO qui étais à #Turin. et 20 ans plus tard ils sont de nouveaux en #Italie et je les suis de nouveau depuis mon Mac mais aussi depuis mon iPhone.
Le temps passe SI VITE ! #nostalgie 😔
Y’all. Take just a moment to forget everything humanity has ever done, and watch the amazing G5 geomagnetic storm as it rips through our fragile air bubble.
That our puny race of hairless apes has survived aeons despite everything the universe throws at us, well surely it’s a mathematical improbability. Well done everybody! Take the 23rd off.
Live feed from some random dude’s backyard, and it’s honestly amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/live/YfF0ngef-WA?si=fbpTTvC1XxGNR2DE
Live feed via Afar.tv from Grindavik, Iceland. Also volcano too maybe on same feed. I think they’re switching cameras as sky conditions change. They have other feeds on their channel if one clouds over.
https://www.youtube.com/live/GzdFAwFtryQ?
Edit, fix link
All G2 networks in SR SA have been shutdown till further notice
That means for ever.
Apart from the fact that I cannot choose this gorgeous G2 phone anymore, to play music on the road, BT, I will not be able to wonder how much technology was put in such a small phone
This is not Nostalgia because there's a lot of those phones that I used and they all need to be quote unquote smartphones now
#mwgic #2025 #Triple #SolarFlare #G5 #Aurora #MercuryRetrograde #Astrophysics meet #Astrology in a perfect #SolarStorm
Ok, had a weekend off and relaxed yesterday night doing some retro computing.
Installed #MacOSXServer #Tiger on the old #PowerMac #G5. Luckily I remembered that this machine does boot from a USB pen drive when ones uses the right commands in #OpenFirmware.
Services started: #blojsom and the #WebObjects server.
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