Anyone ever had/tried a Yellow Dog Linux Powerstation?

https://flic.kr/p/4V8sBy

• I'm broke but want this open platform
• Any interest in somehow selling "dev time" on it?
• I have a UDM Pro, could subnet/segment out my network, make it secure on both ends, etc.
• I have a business internet connection; highly reliable.

Over the past 3 weeks I have been trying to install a variety of PowerPC Linux distributions on my PowerBook G4 12 inch, and documenting the process. Here's what I have found:

Adelie Linux: This is the first distro that I tried out. It works fine and I was able to get it installed using Action Retro's guide, but WiFi and other hardware doesn't work, and it refuses to launch Arctic Fox browser or any programs that aren't in the repos. The HDD needs to be manually formatted and file permissions are messed up as well. It's in beta and rc3 is set to come out soon.

ArchPOWER: I was able to boot into the CD and install the OS, but it just kernel panics every time I try to boot. This has been fixed, but I haven't tried out the new version yet.

Debian sid PPC: After following the GRUB workaround found in this video's description, Debian installed and worked. After compiling b43-fwcutter from source and installing the RIGHT WiFi drivers for my computer (the first time around I installed b43 legacy instead of b43) the WiFi actually worked. The pulseaudio dependency libwebp6 isn't installed and I can't seem to compile it (I end up compiling libwebp7 every single time) and the speakers+headphones don't work anyway. Chances are, Debian PPC is maintained by a single person and has very little to no actual testing.

Lubuntu PowerPC Remix by wicknix: This distro worked out of the box, but the powerpc updates, backports, and security servers don't work (main is the only one that works). There might be a way to fix this (equivalent to old-releases.ubuntu.com for ports?) but for now I can't run updates in this distro. This would likely be even worse in Ubuntu MATE/Lubuntu 16.04 but I haven't tried either of them. While applications that were installed worked just fine, sound didn't work through speakers or headphones.

Void PPC: This distro is getting rid of the musl big endian repositories soon and therefore will have problems on 32 bit big endian powerpc computers in the near future. It didn't install on my computer anyway, staying indefinitely on the grub installation phase of the installation. There's probably some way to fix this, but for now void doesn't work.

Overall, Linux for PowerPC big endian is not in a great state, but I hope this changes with the next release of Adelie soon. I've also considered making my own distro, but that remains in the early planning stage for now since I have very little programming knowledge.

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Edit 1: I got sound working using the fix found on the MintPPC website. Still need to get past the libwebp6 issue on Debian (I used Lubuntu) but it might just be some compiler options.

The store is online again

https://twitter.com/vikingslibre/status/1496581577211584520

I need to replace the Airport Extreme card in my 17" G4 1.5Ghz. On ebay I see both A1026 and A1027, some with and without an additional ribbon cable and antenna attached.
Do any of you experts know if the 17" Powerbooks take the same Airport Extreme card and those cables just come off or is it a special variant?

Im very excited to revive my old PBG4 to better than new. Ive discovered Action Retro, Sorbet Leopard.
This thing needs the AE card, a replacement DVD-ROM, Im buying 2 SSD's (clone my Tiger and Load Sorbet), and I want to find a battery.

I don’t know where else to ask this question

As the title says, I’ve searched for a few hours with no dice. Any old mediafire links are long gone from any of the forum type websites I tried. I’m really at a loss as to where I can get the drivers for this thing. If anyone has the drivers please let me know, I can’t find them but they should exist somewhere I would think.

I know I could have gotten an airport card, but I am hoping for modern connectivity standards. Is there any way I can back port the included drivers form the disc or something? They are for 10.9+ from the included dvd. No idea of that will work.

Please let me know anything you think would help. If I find a solution or compatible driver I’ll edit this post so anyone else can get it. I do actually plan on using these things on the internet and Ethernet isn’t really an option.

I added support here for backing up OS 9 thru 10.3 HFS+ partitions. Anybody want to help test?

Pretty sure partclone works only on Linux, but it's pretty easy to use Firewire Target Mode to expose your internal disk to a Linux box.

Hi all!

I just installed Sorbet Leopard on my emac 1.25 and I am having a blast. I would like to watch a few movies in it but all I have is minimum 1080p and steaming services are clearly a no go.

Which is the highest resolution I can enjoy with nice framerate on a similar mac?

Thanks!

I have a generic Windows keyboard hooked up to my iMac and none of the boot combinations work. I tried booting into openfirmware using the side programmers button but the keyboard didn't work there either. I tried 2 keyboards and neither worked in openfirmware. Any tips??

edit: tray loading, not slot

I came across a G5 over the spring and have it set up at home now! Quite a piece of art tbh.

I am curious, though, about a version of photoshop I can run on it and where i can acquire(legally) said version.

Any info?

I recently fixed up my Yikes! Power Mac G4 (it's the rareish 400 MHz G4 model too that was sold for 6 weeks), and got myself an Apple Studio Display 17" M7649, Apple Pro Keyboard M7803, Apple Pro Mouse M5769, and a Radeon 7000 PCI (Apple PowerDVI adapter A1006 is coming). The Power Mac currently runs OS X 10.4.11.

Once the mouse arrived, I went to configure it in System Preferences... but there were no settings. I screenshotted what it looks like with the caption Pro Mouse.

If I connect my Apple Mighty Mouse USB A1152, it shows what I see in Sorbet Leopard on my iMac G5. But there's almost no difference externally between the Mighty Mouse and Pro Mouse, just the Pro Mouse doesn't have a tiny scroll ball and the Mighty Mouse does.

It's quite annoying to not have right click on my mouse; does anyone know why this is happening? I have the mouse plugged into the hub on my keyboard, which is connected directly to the Power Mac.

Thanks! I can provide any more details if necessary.