Re: PowerBook G4 OS

["Rick Thomas" <rick.thomas@pobox.com>]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2023, at 1:02 PM, Bob Crochelt wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 09:59:48AM +0100, didier gaumet wrote:
>> Le mardi 10 janvier 2023 à 16:32 -0800, Bob Crochelt a écrit :
>> > > 
>> > Thanks to all who replied.  I appreciate the help and advice.  Think
>> > I
>> > will just sit tight with the system, as it works fine for what I
>> > need:
>> > email, a little (slow surfing) and some note writing.
>> > 
>> > I imagine you have saved me many hours of frustration.
>> > 
>> > Regards
>> > Bob Crochelt
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> That would leave you with unmaintained software, though, with obvious
>> risks accessing the internet (web, mail, etc...)
>> 
>> Debian port for a Powerbook G4 is unofficial and I don't know the
>> actual state of this port.
>> 
>> NetBSD, OpenBSD and FreeBSD all seem to have an active and official
>> port for the PowerPC G4.
>> 
>>
> Thanks for this information.  I was aware that Jessie is not maintained;
> that was the reason for my inquiry.  I will look into your suggestions
> Regards
> Bob Crochelt

What I have isn't a powerbook, it's a PowerMac G4 Silver, which may or may-not make a difference.
In any case, it runs fine on "sid".  Here's what /proc/cpuinfo says about it:

    processor       : 0
    cpu             : 7410, altivec supported
    temperature     : 35-37 C (uncalibrated)
    clock           : 533.333332MHz
    revision        : 1.3 (pvr 800c 1103)
    bogomips        : 66.58

    timebase        : 33290001
    platform        : PowerMac
    model           : PowerMac3,4
    machine         : PowerMac3,4
    motherboard     : PowerMac3,4 MacRISC2 MacRISC Power Macintosh
    detected as     : 69 (PowerMac G4 Silver)
    pmac flags      : 00000010
    L2 cache        : 1024K unified
    pmac-generation : NewWorld
    Memory          : 1536 MB

And "uname -a" says:

    Linux dillserver 6.0.0-6-powerpc #1 Debian 6.0.12-1 (2022-12-09) ppc GNU/Linux

Rick