Sidde4d ago

Spent the entire day building a modern *nix ecosystem for the 12" 1.5GHz #PowerbookG4 with the new #SSD drive.

#MacPorts is such a great tool and community with archives for atleast some prebuilt packages.
Thanks!

In total 266 packages installed today. Not done yet though but managed to get the essentials including:
- bash 5.3.9_0
- gcc14 14.3.0_0
- openssh 10.3p1_0
- openssl3 3.6.1_0
- python314 3.14.5_0
- zsh 5.9_3

#VintageMac #PowerPC #Macintosh #Retrocomputing #PPC #Apple #OSX

Show threadStories of Apple4d ago
@sidde did you try Tigerbrew? I opted for it for my iLamp G4 (although I must confess I don't remmber why anymore).
Show threadSidde
@storiesofapple
I looked at tigerbrew, pkgsrc and something else but did ended up with macports. Read the #PowerPC threads on macrumors and macports/ppcports seemed to have a lot of discussion so I picked that one.
May 15 at 5:24amWeb