Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒23h ago

My mom just gave me some cool retro tech I never knew she had!
I think this iBook G4 was released in 2003? It was last updated sometime in 2007. Been in a closet for years. Still works!

Obviously, I have to discover if I can slap #Linux on it! I have zero experience with Macs of this era, OR Linux distros of this era.

Show threadLarry Anderson 🕊️23h ago
@killyourfm It's a PowerPC chip, so you'll need something that works with that. Back in the day I installed Yellow Dog Linux on mine, which was a PowerPC port of Red Hat. No idea what's out there now. Good luck and have fun!
Show threadJason Evangelho 🐧🎒
@larand Thanks! Should be a fun little adventure for a rainy day.
Mar 24 at 9:06pmWeb
Show threadBill Ricker23h ago

@killyourfm @larand

It was a great machine in its day.
IDK what's available today for it. Hope you have fun with it.

At one time, the plurality of the top supercomputers in Top500 list were IBM Power, big brother of this chip, usually Linux, sometimes AIX5L.