Is Modern Linux possible on the G5 iMac?! - (Debian and Adelie Linux on the G5 PowerPC iMac)

[@devwithzachary]

Part 2 if the G5 Saga is now up... lets take a look at those fans! kzbin.info/www/bejne/qp6lY3SOn9uFiq8

[@hew34]

The fans ramping can be a symptom of a non Mac hard drive - this era essentially Mac hard drives had a temp sensor in there lack of that sensor causes that ramping. You can buy insert cables to replicate this sensor.

[@devwithzachary]

Great point!! I might actually have a sensor to use from another dead mac... update video coming soon 😅

[@hew34]

@@devwithzachary I remember buying a special sata cable with the sensor on from OWC when I updated my iMac to a hyrbid SSD-HHD thing.

[@DBProds96]

Definitely worth a follow up to see what’s up with those fans

[@elektrokinesis4150]

earlier this year I was working on porting Debian 12 to IBM POWER7, I ran into issues with firefox not compiling on Big Endian and gave up. Also I had the bad version of xz (yikes).

[@elektrokinesis4150]

also I am not the maintainer of the Debian ppc64 port jfyi

[@elektrokinesis4150]

also fwiw POWER7 is basically a G5 on super steroids, the performance isn't far off a modern chip in some aspects

[@elektrokinesis4150]

the reason I gave up is because the kernel devs decided in their infinite wisdom to push code from the IBM SAS driver team that deprecates the SAS controller in this machine from being able to use SATA SSDs (even though it fully worked before), they said it was because the SATA was only for optical drives, ugh

[@imranonthenet]

I'm a big fan of PowerPC Macs, especially the iMac G5 and PowerMac G5... I like your video and I would like to have a follow up video where you try different softwares on this iMac and specially try to browser modern websites and see how it renders them... My biggest request to you is to try to run Java JDK 11 or higher on it and see if that's possible... I'm a Java developer and I would like to explore the possibility of writing Java software on the PowerPC Mac.

[@jensputzlocher8345]

Yes, we need a second part. I installed Lubuntu 16 on my iMac G5 about four or five years ago. But ist is outdated nowadays. I want to give Adelie a try. By the way, you had to pronounce it the french way, something like ay-dey-lee.

[@imixmuan9081]

Now try Fienix Linux. Void Linux PPC. MintPPC. Wicknix's 16.04 and 12.04 Lubuntu "respins".

[@devwithzachary]

@@imixmuan9081 thanks for the suggestions!

[@bitley]

Will see if this might work on one of my G5 dual desktops NOW. I will update here with how it goes.

[@bitley]

Hm. I get DO-QUIESCE invalid memory access

[@alejandroatencio8661]

T2SDE is another debian based distro that can run on ppc architecture

[@SergeGuillaume]

"Ah-day-lee"

[@Nookdashiddole]

Steve jobs was a hero and a saint

[@elektrokinesis4150]

netsurf would run on Debian, but you'd run into an issue running javascript, maybe this issue is also on adelie

[@AJenbo]

Running Linux 6.2 on my iMac G4 (32bit) ... still have to figure out how to patch the Nvidia driver to work for it.

[@elektrokinesis4150]

it worked on much older versions, you might have to refactor the code of the older version of nouveau

[@vmisev]

I just watched a video about Vaxen servers and IMHO that’s exactly how real computer should sound 😉 Just joking, that’s cool project, I wish you good luck! 👍

[@Brandon302team]

Bruh at least try pearos 8 it's like macos x but based on latest Linux I think.

[@somacruz8272]

is this thing BE or LE?

[@devwithzachary]

Big Endian

[@somacruz8272]

@@devwithzachary honestly done even remember why i asked.... of course its BE