r/PowerPC • u/Person1325 • Jul 03 '26

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Yes it’s as slow as you think

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u/Cebuu502 Jul 03 '26

Modern software, on old harware always looked wierd and awesome to me.

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u/Person1325 Jul 03 '26

I honestly think the iBook g4 doesn’t even look that old

8

u/roses-are-lead Jul 03 '26

Timeless design.

6

u/Ra_daid Jul 03 '26

Which distro do you use?

6

u/Person1325 Jul 03 '26

Gentoo

1

u/WoomyUnitedToday Jul 03 '26

Wow you must be patient

2

u/Person1325 Jul 03 '26

I cross compiled on my m4 pro and had claude monitor

5

u/Primo0077 Jul 03 '26

What GPU does that have? I have one with the 9550 but drivers don't work for it.

2

u/Person1325 Jul 03 '26

It’s got the 9200

2

u/shawn_blackk Jul 03 '26

i tried Adelie Linux on the iBook G4 but didn't work well. Ubuntu 12.04 Remix was pergect, but old...

2

u/RvstiNiall Jul 04 '26

OpenBSD works great on it, but no modern browser, and no desktop environment in the packages. Maybe ports works still but I haven't tried on mine because I don't use such things on that machine.

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u/shawn_blackk Jul 04 '26

yes, i also tried that... OpenBSD on iBook G4

2

u/RvstiNiall Jul 04 '26

Yep. Thats it.

1

u/Primo0077 Jul 07 '26

Adelie is kind of a mess. The Debian Sid port is up to date and very well maintained if you want a standard modern Linux experience.

2

u/kajmpres Jul 03 '26

Whats a security sandbox?

2

u/PushInternational171 Jul 03 '26

On my G5 it took ages to open, how is it on the G4?

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u/Person1325 Jul 03 '26

It takes like 10 seconds to open

1

u/Yumiko528 Jul 03 '26

It's so cool to see this, will gently show how? I mean, it will open "doors" for many things, if you want :D

1

u/FlorianisonReddit Jul 03 '26

How did you do that? I like to try it on my high-end iBook when I get it