scotishhaggis Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 Hey guys i work in a local college in Scotland as a IT tech was doing my rounds last week throwing out old printers and broken bits of kit . When i came across 2 old g3 ibooks 1 powered up but had a broken screen and the outher dint work at all. i manged to salvage 1 laptop out of the both. It seems to work ok. spec as it goes is 12" screen G3 500 mhz 8meg ATI Rage 190 meg RAM 20 GIG HD dvd rom Managed to get OSX 10.4 (Tiger) on there the now works ok bit stuttery tho. What do you think i should do with it. i.e what should the best ppc distro be for it. i have Ubuntu 7.10 would not boot at all and 6.10 could not get the air port or full rez on the display. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72072-best-distro-for-a-white-g3-ibook/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonestonne Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 its really dependent on the type of linux distro you want. Fluxbox based distrobutions are really good on slower computers [distros like Fluxbuntu, Sabayon, and Gentoo (if set up that way)]. the PPC versions of Ubuntu 5.10 or 6.10 would work great from my opinion, but i have a thinkpad, so i can't give a definite answer. Sabayon is a bit large, but you might look into Fluxbuntu, or if you're up for a challenge DSL or some other small distro. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72072-best-distro-for-a-white-g3-ibook/#findComment-510450 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=65542 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=66367 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=65723 Sabayon is a bit large, but you might look into Fluxbuntu, or if you're up for a challenge DSL or some other small distro. Sabayon and DSL do not have a PPC version. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72072-best-distro-for-a-white-g3-ibook/#findComment-511934 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDRacer48 Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 xubuntu 6.06 PPC version. small size, consumes little resources, and offers all of the functionality of a modern OS Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72072-best-distro-for-a-white-g3-ibook/#findComment-512007 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 I would agree with using Ubuntu 6.10. I would warn against version 7 because I tried it and the sound would not work, no matter what solution I tried. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72072-best-distro-for-a-white-g3-ibook/#findComment-513825 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shagbag Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Here's a good place to start: http://penguinppc.org/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72072-best-distro-for-a-white-g3-ibook/#findComment-514162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted November 22, 2007 Share Posted November 22, 2007 This is what a DistroWatch reader wrote: 143 • I can't believe it... (by Anonymous on 2007-11-22 05:34:21 GMT from United States)CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION PowerPC comment!!! CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION After trying every PPC distro from YellowDog to Etch and even the F8 live. YellowDog crawled... Etch panicked.... and F8, well that was a live cd after all, but being based on F5 I knew what to expect after the yellowdog fiasco... So I thought what the hell, I'll try suse. I know there "evil" and all but hey I thought I'd see how there progressing on the POWER front after the re-imbrace. To my surprize it was actually a very stable and speedy system on this old G3. What a shame, isn't the POWER arch. YD's bread and butter, you'd think there system would be a little faster. Anywho back to suse... It wasn't all roses after I updated, it seems that yast decided to go ahead and install a new kernel, without asking me. The only hint it gave me was after the update. I was presented with a dialog that read something along the lines of "Well something got installed that requires you to reboot your computer" But here's the kicker, it decided to remove everything associated with the old kernel, preventing be from getting online so I could reinstall it! I only learned after the fact that your not actually supposed to update your kernel with yast... I don't know if that was old info, but after this clusterfsck I wouldn't doubt it. Listen up Novell devs, you need to put a little more work into your magical "tool" and maybe it'll work as advertised one day. Who knows... I actually thought about buying the box set beforehand too, so I guess I should thank you guys for saving me a little green, huh? Love, peace and chicken grease! His criticism wasn't much of an issue, IMO. This is what another user replied: 145 • RE 143 ....openSuse Kernel issues (by My Tip on 2007-11-22 08:21:01 GMT from Australia)Aways keep the debug version of the original (or later updates) kernel installed as a fall back for recovery purposes as it does not get removed when you update your normal kernel. Just make sure you have a boot entry for it in your menu.lst Grub boot file and your life will be easy. Cheers PS: Smart package manager is my preferred package installer and I use manual updates. And besides it is not true that you are not supposed to upgrade your kernel with YaST. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72072-best-distro-for-a-white-g3-ibook/#findComment-514617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 25, 2007 Share Posted November 25, 2007 A version of Ubuntu or Debian linux are your best bets. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72072-best-distro-for-a-white-g3-ibook/#findComment-517515 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hrsetrdr Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 A version of Ubuntu or Debian linux are your best bets. Ubuntu 6.10 ppc worked splendedly on my ibook G3 700. However, I eventually bought OSX 10.2.8 off ebay and installed. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72072-best-distro-for-a-white-g3-ibook/#findComment-553607 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted December 27, 2007 Share Posted December 27, 2007 This is the best distro to run on it: http://workaround.ch/ Slackintosh Linux is based on Slackware Linux which is one of the world's most stable linuxes (is this even a word ) But you need to know what you are doing, not recommended for n00bs! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72072-best-distro-for-a-white-g3-ibook/#findComment-553982 Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiJKa Posted December 29, 2007 Share Posted December 29, 2007 While I've not installed a ppc version, to date, I'm going to say that the best bet for a slower processor is going to be a version of xubuntu. Give yourself a rather large pagefile (I use around 2GBs though CONSIDERABLY less would do) and ram usage will be minimal. Package installations are binary for the most part, therefore compiling and CPU overworking is kept to a minimum and xfce is pretty and highly customizable. You might have to fiddle with your xorg.conf for full resolutions and proper graphics (I still end up having to do that quite often, despite proprietary drivers and newer gpus) and may have to custom compile your airport driver. Still, ubuntu reigns amongst linux distros for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/72072-best-distro-for-a-white-g3-ibook/#findComment-556364 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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