• Paladin of the Pegasos
    Paladin of the Pegasos
    Intuition
    Posts: 1110 from 2013/5/24
    From: Nederland
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    ernsteiswuerfel wrote:
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    Intuition schrieb:
    I'm content with fiddling with getting Linux to work on this thing without the graphics being completely psychedelic in the tiny amount of free time I've got so no rush.


    Ubuntu MATE 16.04.2 (download iso) runs fine on my ppc machines and installing it is not too hard:

    But beware, GPU-acceleration is a mess on Big Endian CPUs. Depending on what you got, you will experience glitches. Only card which was working out of the box is the Radeon 9700 in my PowerBook 5,8. The Radeon 9650 of my G5 only works when turning the acceleration off.

    However at least the r600-class is getting some attention from devs thanks to some X1000 and X5000 users (klick). ;-)

    The good thing is that Ubuntu MATE 16.04.x will be supported until 2021, the bad thing is that it's one of the few PPC-Distros left. Other than that I run Gentoo Linux besides MorphOS, as it's faster than Ubuntu an got a more recent software stack. But the installation procedure is rather tricky.


    Thanks. 16.10 has reversed colours RGBA/ARGB on the live CD with the 9650 and the X800. When I get time I'll install from text mode and have a play. Failing that I'll try 16.04 but I noticed Opensuse still supports PPC so I can try that too.

    There's always the BSD's too, I'm too old to have the patience for gentoo these days :)
    1.67GHz 15" PowerBook G4, 1GB RAM, 128MB Radeon 9700M Pro, 64GB SSD, MorphOS 3.15

    2.7GHz DP G5, 4GB RAM, 512MB Radeon X1950 Pro, 500GB SSHD, MorphOS 3.9
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