Re: What are you guys running on your PowerBook G4's Debian PPC?

[Joe Nosay <superbisquit@gmail.com>]

You can do a dual boot with FreeBSD and set up minimalist environments on both.

Run the Debian installation at 1000 hertz and the FreeBSD installation at 2000 hertz with both using blackbox, enlightenment, and lxde or xfce as the possible graphical environments.

Firefox is a heavy browser. try running surf; or, if possible, find a source for xombrero and run that.

The system is going to run more smooth if the same assembly language calls to the CPU registers are constant.

Minimalist and simple works wonders on the Power architecture.

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 4:36 PM, Luke <g.elukeit@gmail.com> wrote:

Il 08/mar/2017 10:54 PM, "PhiLLip Pi" <ant@zimage.com> ha scritto:

Server? Workstation? Old school text stuff? Just curious. I am trying to
see what I can use my slow PowerBook G4 with 512 MB of RAM to do.

I'm running Debian Jessie on G3 Pismo Power Book, like mini server, without graphic environment, for remote connections and web server.

I've replaced the oldie HD with a 4Gb SDcard and internal adapter to IDE bus: so I've got a solid state storage for less 10€!!!

The /home is on the traditional 40Gb external USB disk, but I will replace it with another SD or Micro SD.

The battery was out and not replaced, but the DVD drive It was transplanted by an ibook.

It's a little Frankenstein!