Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 568 from 2015/6/17
From: Funeralopolis
@Intuition:
I do run Linux on the G5. The situation with Xorg-/drm-/Mesa-bugs got a little better over the last 2 years. My G5 (+ Radeon 9800 Mac Edition) is able to run now X with correct colors and a 2D-accelerated desktop. Firefox works fine too.
However you need a recent toolchain (gcc 7) and software stack for this. No problem on Gentoo which I run, but it is more or less a problem on other distros.
Ubuntu PPC got ditched, 16.04 LTS is the last supported version. Debian PPC ports may be recent enough. There is also openSUSE Tumbleweed for ppc64 (
klick). Last time I tried, the iso successfully booted on my G5.
PMac G5 11,2. PMac G4 3,6. PBook G4 5,8. [MorphOS 3.19 / Adelie Linux / Gentoo Linux] | A600GS [Amibench / OS 3.2] | Talos II Secure Workstation. [Gentoo Linux]
