How do I run update-grub from another Partition or a LiveCD?
Veröffentlicht unter powermacg5 von thafaker - 17 April 2025
As you know my Setup, I will shortly explain again. In my Powermac G5 there is an SATA-SSD as a replacement for the old spinning Apple HDD. On this SSD I installed Mac OX 10.5 and also Debian SID for
Mac OS X 10.5.8 with modern Browser
Veröffentlicht unter powermacg5 von thafaker - 15 Februar 2025
As you can see in the screenshot, I am visiting both my weblog and amazon.de
Websites with the Powermac G5 2,0 GHz. This is only possible because there
is a relative modern webbrowser (2022) by user
A picture of my Powermac G5
Veröffentlicht unter powermacg5 von thafaker - 13 Februar 2025
A picture of my Powermac G5 Powermac G5 11,2 with
2 GHz Dual Core IBM PPC970 CPU
12 GB DDR2 Ram
PCIe NVMe-SSD with 1 TB SSD
Apple Cinema HD 23" Display
Original Keyboard and Mouse Tags: powermacg5
How To Boot Powermac from USB
Veröffentlicht unter powermacg5 von thafaker - 15 Januar 2025
There are many different mentions in the web. Some say it is impossible to boot
Powermacs from USB, others says: only PowermacG5 from 7,3 Revision are able to
boot from USB and the third party says:
Firefox 128-ESR on PPC64 Powermac G5
Veröffentlicht unter powermacg5 von thafaker - 29 Dezember 2024
Since I own the Powermac G5 and play around with it, I want to install a modern
Browser and therefor, I want to run Firefox on it. But it is not possible. I tried
different Linux Distros like Debian
Using OpenFirmware on Powermacs
Veröffentlicht unter powermacg5 von thafaker - 27 Dezember 2024
There is always the discussion around if the Powermacs are able to boot from USB or not and I can say: every Powermac G5 is able to boot from USB Thumbdrive. So it
is quite easy to dd an ISO of Linux
Sorbet Leopard 10.5.9
Veröffentlicht unter powermacg5 von thafaker - 27 Dezember 2024
There are quite a few Powermac Enthusiast around the world, like I am. They are
using the Powermac G5 for day-to-day work and I think this is pretty cool,
even when I think we need to go green as
Status of Firefox on PPC64 Big Endian
Veröffentlicht unter powermacg5 von thafaker - 20 Dezember 2024
So yesterday was the release ouf 24.12 T2/Linux and the maintainer, creator
and mastermind behind, René Rebe, were at a lifestream on youtube and twitch.
So I played around with T2 on my Powermac G5
I hate it when…
Veröffentlicht unter powermacg5 von thafaker - 18 Dezember 2024
I hate it when... ... interesting topics in the internet are videos that should be blog posts. I hate it so much. It rises up that every time when I look through the net for a specific topic, I get
New Kernel 6.12.5 for my Powermac G5
Veröffentlicht unter powermacg5 von thafaker - 16 Dezember 2024
I plugged in that great NVMe SSD into my Powermac G5 because he supports PCI-Express (Version 1.0) and
there is a 4x Speed Port that is unused (the x16 is for the Graphicscard) and now I ran a 1 TB
