Is Modern Linux possible on the G5 iMac?! - (Debian and Adelie Linux on the G5 PowerPC iMac)
Today we look at running Modern up to date Linux distros on a 20-year-old iMac G5. To my amazement, distros are still being built for the PowerPC 64bit!
The command used to boot from USB:
boot ud:,\\:tbxi
The blog that I found kicking it all off: https://midnightcheese.com/2023/09/st...
Adelie linux: https://www.adelielinux.org/download/
Massive thank you to John Paul Adrian Glaubitz, http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de/~gla... a volunteer Debian developer who still regularly builds PowerPC install images and manages the Debian PowerPC mailing list https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/
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Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:48 Opening up the Mac...
02:46 Debian 12 try one
04:09 Debian 12 try two
06:28 It's ALIVE
08:42 Main Issue
10:18 Adelie Linux
15:18 Final Thoughts