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tfofurn

Scraping the Cube: Part I

Feb 02, 2007 23:58

I have my Mother's Mac G4 Cube. Since my TV has a VGA input, I figured it would be fun to have a computer connected. The Mac Mini is beautiful, but a bit pricey. The Cube would only cost as much as the OS upgrade. A big part of the reason I could convince my Mother to upgrade to her Mini was the lack of modern software available under OS 9. ( Read more... )

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alynch February 3 2007, 05:45:02 UTC

Ubuntu PPC is okay, however, I get the best performance out of PPC with Gentoo (since I compile everything with that from source).

Especially with older hardware, Gentoo is the way to go.

tfofurn February 3 2007, 06:11:18 UTC

Oof. Isn't Gentoo hard to install and maintain?

alynch February 3 2007, 06:15:38 UTC

Yes, if you're retarded and can't follow directions. ;-)

It can be a bit tricky to do the initial install, requiring a bit of command-line work.

However, those command-lines are well-explained, and are designed to be inputted verbatim (where applicable).

Maintenance is easy. I actually prefer Gentoo's package management, since it's really just a bunch of scripts that pull down source packages. So much easier for dependency and version checking than static binary packages. ;-)

But then again, I also have a few systems that were done with Linux from Scratch, whereby I compiled everything. By hand. No manual. No scripts. No fun, either. ;-)