Hi Richard.
You definitely need to install more RAM if you plan to use the machine for web browsing and other GUI-based tasks. 2GB would be just about minimum for a modern OS like Wheezy or Jessie. Even with that, I’d make sure to specify a lightweight desktop, like Mate or Xfce.
Given that you’re planning to upgrade RAM, you should probably consider updating the OS to Jessie — just so you’re getting the latest security updates. Wheezy, being older, is lower on the priority list for getting needed security patches.
I seem to remember that you have a G4 PowerBook and a G5 PowerMac (big aluminum case with lots of holes for airflow) and the PowerMac only has 512MB RAM.
If we’re talking about the G4 PowerBook, then Jessie will be just fine, as long as you have enough RAM.
If we’re talking about the G5 PowerMac, my experience is that you need a specially patched kernel to use it with a graphical user interface — adding RAM doesn’t help because the problem is that the Graphics card uses a feature of the G5 memory interface (“huge” pages) that the kernel doesn’t support (or vice versa, my memory is hazy). As I said, I gave up and found non-graphical applications for my G5 Macs.
Hope this helps!
Rick
On Oct 12, 2017, at 1:38 AM, Richard Kuenz <richard.kuenz@web.de> wrote:
Ah sorry, i actually installed Wheezy,
and it still was too slow for my needs -
i might upgrade RAM to 2 GB and see if this helps.
Would like to use Squeeze - but Debian got rid "cleared" of Iceape and therefore at the moment Wheezy / Jessie seems better for browsing especially if one likes to consume occasioally yYoutube content or so ,albeit slow.
Am 12.10.17 um 10:33 schrieb Rick Thomas:
On Oct 12, 2017, at 1:06 AM, Richard Kuenz <richard.kuenz@web.de> wrote:
Thank you ver much Rick,
this helped me alot installing SID onto Powermac G4.
You’re welcome. Glad I could help!
Rick