{"id":152,"date":"2006-02-25T07:53:39","date_gmt":"2006-02-25T12:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2006\/02\/25\/ubuntu-runs-on-the-powermac-who-knew\/"},"modified":"2008-05-28T17:52:48","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T22:52:48","slug":"ubuntu-runs-on-the-powermac-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2006\/02\/25\/ubuntu-runs-on-the-powermac-who-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu runs on the PowerMac? Who knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Probably everybody but me. Here I&#8217;ve been waiting patiently for the ISO release of Yellow Dog Linux 4.1 to resurrect my old G3 as a backup server (Yes, I know I could have just installed YellowDog  4.0, but it seemed pointless to do it now and then have to upgrade in a few weeks.) when I could have just installed what&#8217;s my preferred Linux distro these days in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>However my initial efforts failed. The live CD was unable to boot my Blue &amp; White G3. I am now burning an install CD to see if that will work. Apparently the newer models of Mac are a lot more reliable about this than the older models. Still there are a lot of problems getting set up compared to what would be expected on whitebox X86 hardware. The live CD started to boot my PowerMac dual G5 but hung. <\/p>\n<p>I may also try NetBSD and see if that works. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Probably everybody but me. Here I&#8217;ve been waiting patiently for the ISO release of Yellow Dog Linux 4.1 to resurrect my old G3 as a backup server (Yes, I know I could have just installed YellowDog 4.0, but it seemed pointless to do it now and then have to upgrade in a few weeks.) when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[410],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac","tag-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}