Linux For Mac G4

17-04-2021
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Ive got a Power Mac G4 MDD (Dual 1.0ghz, 2GB RAM, fuckton o harddrives and Radeon 9000 Pro AGP) and Tiger decided it hated life, so I had to format it and install a new OS. I had no restore disk, so I went ahead and used a PowerPC Port of 12.04 for PPC. I had simply forgotten that Unity is a. A PowerPC edition of Ubuntu MATE 14.04 is ready for testing thanks to Adam Smith from the Ubuntu MATE community! Adam has uploaded the.iso image to OneDrive and it is available from the link below. The website of Gentoo, a flexible Linux distribution. The Gentoo Distribution Kernel project is excited to announce that our new Linux Kernel packages are ready for a wide audience! The project aims to create a better Linux Kernel maintenance experience by providing ebuilds that can be used to configure, compile, and install a kernel entirely through the package manager as well as prebuilt.

Contents

  1. Long-term support releases

Since 7.04 Ubuntu, PowerPC downloads of Ubuntu are not available on all Ubuntu mirrors. Below you'll find links to the ISOs on the main Ubuntu server, as well as, help on finding mirrors.

  • Jun 10, 2009 Revive your old Mac G3, G4, or G5 with Linux. By Jack Wallen on June 10, 2009 in Linux - Last Update: December 28, 2012 - 23 comments.
  • There is a distrubution of Ubuntu linux for the PowerPC, it is pretty current. I have it as a secondary boot option on my powermac g4, and it runs fine. Your tibook will run up to mac os x 10.4.11, natively. So you could download the ubuntu powerpc edition, burn it to a cd, and boot from the.

Please review the PowerPC FAQ and the PowerPC Known Issues pages before installing. All the information you need for a successful install should be in those pages, so make sure you check them out first before wasting your time and effort on needless internet searches. Please do tell somebody on the Apple forum if you think the instructions are unclear or are missing something, but it would be great if you could make the improvement yourself!

You may also wish to read the general release notes.

14.04 Trusty Tahr

Lubuntu (LTS, 3 years)

Desktop live install CD, alternate install CD

  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/trusty/release/

Server (LTS, 5 years)

  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/trusty/release/

Netboot/mini

  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/trusty/

12.04 Precise Pangolin

Ubuntu (LTS, 5 years)

Desktop live install CD, server install CD, alternate install CD, and preinstalled desktop image for various platforms

  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/release/

Kubuntu (LTS, 5 years)

Desktop live install CD, alternate install CD

  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/precise/release/

Lubuntu

Desktop live install CD, alternate install CD

  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/precise/release/

Xubuntu (LTS, 3 years)

Install via the mini/alternate CDs following the instructions in the PowerPC FAQ.

Netboot/mini

  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/precise/

Netboot/mini

  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/lucid/

Lubuntu

Desktop live install CD, alternate install CD

Ubuntu For Mac G4

  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/

Kubuntu

Desktop live install CD

  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/

Apple

Server

  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/

Netboot/mini

  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/

The following iso's are available for testing. In order for an iso to be released it must complete a series of test cases - volunteers are needed for this! Please also report bugs so that they get fixed prior to release.

Ubuntu MATE

  • Live CD - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/daily-live/current/

Lubuntu

  • Live CD - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/daily-live/current/

  • Alternate CD - http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/daily/current/

Ubuntu-Server

  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-server/daily/current/

Netboot/Mini

  • http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/

  • http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/

More specifically

  • http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/ports/releases/

This is not an complete list (please add to it). Using the list of official CD mirrors and a bit of ingenuity traversing the mirror directory structures (for example, click on the Parent Directory/ or ../ link) you can probably find more mirrors that contain PowerPC releases. Most PowerPC ISOs are in a ports directory, but for others (e.g. 12.04) you can find them in the releases directory. Daily development builds can be found with other architectures in the daily/ (Alternate CD) or daily-live/ (Desktop CD) directories.

Academic Computer Club, Umeå University, Sweden

  • http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/

Linux Para Mac G4

Silicon Hill, Czech Republic

  • http://ftp.sh.cvut.cz/MIRRORS/ubuntu-cdimage/

University of Waterloo Computer Science Club, Canada

Powerbook G4 Value

  • http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/ubuntu-ports-releases/

LeaseWeb, United States

Linux For Mac G4

  • http://mirror.us.leaseweb.net/ubuntu-cdimage/

Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Linux For Mac G4 Usb

  • http://ubuntu.mirror.tudos.de/ubuntu-dvd/ports/releases/

Internode, Australia

  • http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/

Mac G4 Laptop

PowerPCDownloads (last edited 2015-09-12 06:48:05 by adamsmith)