Reviving an old G4 iMac?

Trunks0

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Reviving an old G4 iMac?

Jan 18, 2020, 11:11 AM

Anyone have experience with PPC distro's of Linux?

Currently I just use it as a picture frame running a slide show of my digital camera shots, but figured I might be able to get a little more functionality out of it with an OS I don't mind having connected to the network. Would also make putting new pictures on it easier and I might be able to run a nicer slide show program.

Thoughts? ideas?

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Lazy8s

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Jan 21, 2020, 06:17 AM

What about Lubuntu?

https://www.macobserver.com/tips/dee...running-linux/

I've been out of the 'nix circles for some time now, but remember reading that this (and Yellow Dog prior) were pretty good.
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