[Nottingham] Changing OSx for Linux

[Benjamin Crowe]

I also have a airport card installed on my mac would that still function
properly if I was to change to linux??

On 21 June 2010 11:03, TJ <linux at tjworld.net> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 10:19 +0100, Benjamin Crowe wrote:
> > Hi everyone.
> >
> > I have recently started using my old PPC eMac G4 again. I am currently
> > running 10.4 on it but I find due to the lack of available memory
> > (after the os has eaten up most of it) it is really slow and online
> > videos like youtube are very stuttered. Is there any distro of linux I
> > could use as a os on this mac??
>
> I run Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid on PPC machines for testing kernel and other
> builds:
>
> iBook 2000
> G3 iMac Summer 2002
>
> With both I just added more RAM to make them useful.
>
> With reasonable memory (512MB-1GB) both can run OS X 10.4 Tiger and
> Ubuntu Desktop well.
>
>
>
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