Woah I just literally search about how to install a latest version of Ubuntu or any Linux Dist on PowerPC Macs earlier and this shows up, you're a life saver man thx

@kurnma3776

2 жыл бұрын

PPC isn't developed anymore for Ubuntu, but the latest release that supports PowerPC, 18.04, is still on LTS support until 2023. Debian and Gentoo do still support PPC.

@whophd

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurnma3776 Cool! Are they similar effort as this video? Or easier? Either way I don’t mind. I do want to know if they can run Firefox though. And then I want to see how terribly slow that is.

@yxles

2 жыл бұрын

@@kurnma3776 yeah the last version of Ubuntu for PowerPC is 14.04 so any efforts of working modern linux on ppc is definitely a thumbs up

@gr8gassy

2 жыл бұрын

Funny enough, I did the same this morning

@kurnma3776

2 жыл бұрын

@@whophd Gentoo is harder and more lengthier to install due to it compiling all packages manually, and it having no automatic installer. Debian is easier, although it has outdated packages.

It’s your face! 😳 😮! Wow that caught me off guard! But welcome, it’s a bit shocking to know you are not just a pair of disembodied flailing arms, but a bit sad at the same time 😂 Love that you are still keeping disembodied arm wavy man alive and well!

You look considerably different to how I imagined. Nice to see modern Linux distros for PPC Macs. I was slightly disappointed way back when Ubuntu cancelled their PPC version.

@jorgpeters7244

Жыл бұрын

Well I will try out Sorbet Leopard, that is communitybased and may run good on that machine.

This brings me back to the iMac G5 I received years ago. I installed the latest at the time Kubuntu and used it to find it was a very snappy computer. Before I was into retro computers and gaming. Though when I go back to Canada next, I will try to take it with me and then put the Sorbet version of macOS on it. Love the channel and content! You're giving my retro tech new life!

@ScarlettStunningSpace

2 жыл бұрын

You're able to install Windows 7 as well, this came in handy when it was still supported. I'm assuming installing anything newer than Windows 7 is impossible

@MarcoGPUtuber

2 жыл бұрын

@@ScarlettStunningSpace Windows 7 only runs on Intel and AMD CPUs. It's impossible to run Windows 7 on an iMac G5.

@lepidotos

2 жыл бұрын

Mine must be broken then, because it's horrible on my iMac G5.

Keep up the great work! Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays, all! Love all the retro shenanigans. I remember helping a friend back in the day with installing Yellow Dog Linux on his PPC. It was always a magical feeling getting things to work.

Awesome video! Neat to finally see your face on camera in the intro! Hope the new setup and studio space is working out well for you!

I have a cherished sunflower Mac G4, still running Mac i0S software. Even though it's 18 years old, it still operates perfectly. Your detailed instructions will extend it's life for another few years! Thanks! SHB Canada

Thank you for your content! Merry Christmas and happy New Year!

great job Sean that is amazing how you put that on the G4 iMac very to see the face that goes with the hands I for some reason was expecting Jays face but you went with the right choice Happy Holidays my friend

Exciting to see this running on an early iMac G4! I have a few of these and spent an absurd amount of time last year trying to install a somewhat current PPC Linux, but those pesky graphics drivers (or lack thereof) were a major headache. Very tempted to throw Adelie and Sorbet Leopard on my Mac Mini G4!

Up until today I thought the host of this channel was a disembodied hand. Happy holidays dude and thanks for the cool content you create👍👍👍

Wow! A video on Christmas. Great video!

That is so cool! Can't wait for the next video. I think I'll try this on one of my iMac G3s soon. Heck, maybe even my G5 if my USB Ethernet dongle will be recognized.

All RC2 and below install media are now BROKEN due to the devs updating the APK Keys. RC3 will be released in a couple of weeks (as of 11/21/22). Had a chat with them on IRC and submitted a log and they traced it down and confirmed it. Should make this a highlighted comment so people know to wait for RC3. I spent half a day trying to make it work lol.

I have an original 20-inch G4 'flower iMac, that I have had sitting quietly in my attic since my son left for university, more than 15years ago This will revive it! Thanks for such detailed instructions on an old, but stunningly modern-looking PPC iMac.

I'd love to see more of these. I find Adelie fascinating, but am not ready to start installing it on my old PPC Macs. You should install the other DEs to see what the performance is like. I'm partial to MATE and XFCE myself, but to each his own. You could even do XFCE with the Platinum9 theme and have modern Linux running on a vintage Mac looking like OS 9.

@LoganKaval

5 ай бұрын

Smart

VoidPPC is also an option by the way, but the installer is much harder to use. It's also a rolling release distro. I was using OpenFirmware commands to boot as well, until I realized it was just in the OpenFirmware boot menu. I'm not sure why that happened though. Loved the face reveal as well, hope that new studio is working well for you!

@jamesfatula5824

Жыл бұрын

i tried voidlinux ppc on this lampshade imac only problem is the screen flickers at text login screen no gui so no dice on those nvidia video graphics

Very cool! I’m looking forward to more Linux shenanigans.

Just did this on my late 04 iMac G5. Works a treat! Ethernet did work on this model out of the box. Surprisingly usable for a 16 year old machine.

Finally took the dual 800mhz Quicksilver out of the closet because of your video. Also waiting for my 2003 MDD this week. Thanks for all your work, cheers !

This is pure quality thank you for this tutorial!

this is great info. I hope Adelie watches and improves their installer for PPC Macs. Do you think they need any hardware donations to improve compatibility?

My favorite part of this video is the hand gestures in the first four minutes. That had me infinitely entertained.

Amazing content as always!

I had a triple boot setup with MacOS 9, X and Ubuntu on my B&W G3 many many years ago. From what I remember all 3 options would be listed in GRUB on every boot with OS 9 being default. After the machine sat in a barn at my parents house for about 15 years the contents of the HDD were too corrupted to be of any use. It boots fine between OS 9 and 10.4.11 on a SSD now... will have to try Adelie at some point.

Why does it come with KDE though? Very odd choice for old hardware.

@canopus5498

2 жыл бұрын

they have a choice of three different desktops

@alfiegordon9013

2 жыл бұрын

You'd be surprised, KDE has gotten a lot more lightweight recently

@jm036

2 жыл бұрын

@@alfiegordon9013 Only in RAM usage. Also this is a slightly older version and KDE is a disaster in terms of stability.

@jm036

2 жыл бұрын

@@canopus5498 Which? Imo LXQt is probably best here, maybe even LXDE which is basically abandoned but works.

@themacintoshnerd

Жыл бұрын

Yeah KDE. doesn’t run well on my RPI400 but it is pretty cool to see it on old hardware.

Fantastic! I have one of these. It will be great to load a modern OS on it. Hopefully a modern browser will work.

I have a G4 Quicksilver with 2 1.25GHz processors. Should be better able to handle this version of Linux. Been looking to do something with the system. Even after nearly 20 years, it still works. This system is what got me through a lot of my graphic design classes when I was going for my bachelors.

Now you're talking! It's a real pity NOT to squeeze every bit and mhz of that iMac with an up-to-date OS, thumbs up!

Done. Thanks a lot for this video. Now we have homework to do by installing some software and devices.

Just finished installing it with the old guides yesterday, then looked for it again only to find that you have a new guide out that works a lot better! :facepalm:

Omg there's a face! I haven't seen it before as far as I recall, it's different than I expected but I like it

Dude it’s awesome to see you now and now you can put a face to the channel

I had played around with a couple of live cd Adelie versions, but never did install it. I'll be interested in seeing where this goes. My problem with using Fienix on a regular basis is, that while the OS runs very well, there is a very limited amount of software that will actually run on the PPC architecture. It's kind of like running Leopard, the OS is fine, but performance is limited by the lack of software support. If you actually can get Firefox running on this, I will be amazed and impressed. Good luck with it.

@jarms40

2 жыл бұрын

Fienix is really good. At least it can get a modern web browser to run on a G5. My big issue is its interaction with my video card. Once motion video starts to run, it turns blue.

Great video! Let's give the second life to our old Macs!😁

You could try installing os-prober and see if it detects the Mac os partitions. Then backup your grub config and use grub-mkconfig to generate a new config that contains Mac os. A couple of notes: -The Mac OS partitions have to be mounted in order for os-prober to detect them -in some distros os-prober is disabled by default. It can be enabled by changing a line in /etc/default/grub (not exactly sure on the path)

@DangerousPictures

2 жыл бұрын

I did some digging and os-prober seems to support os 6-10. I will take a closer look into it and provide a little guide if you are interested once I get home from the holidays

Nice to finally see you :-)

I hope you make a video where you install Adelie on the G4 Pismo! I was thinking of installing it on mine.

O.M.G 1.07 You appeared, in your own video, and it wasn't just the hands. Won't that do something to the KZread time stream Comments section lol. Does this mean we'll never see your hands again, an we will have to go back to longingly looking at old videos where it's just the hands, to get our fix. In all seriousness though; it's brave of anyone to put there face on the O'l tube of u and i applaud anyone for doing it. Keep up the informative and great videos. I obv didn't get past the 1.07 timestamp, normal service resumed! or is it?

Back in the mid-2000's, I went to task installing Linux on an old world Mac G3 and that was a trip. It wasn't as easy as booting to a CD - you had to bootstrap using OS9 to get to the kernel.

@RWBHere

3 ай бұрын

Been there; done that; threw away the Teeshirt. 😉

That’s so cool. A great way to keep an old computer in service. I think this would be a smart thing to do since new computers can be really bad for the environment

@luki8806

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and no. If you can make an old PC in working state that is really usable, then it's a yes. But for example, a P4 is a bad bet, it's really unusable for today's standards and also consumes a lot of energy. It's okay if you are on solar for example, but buying a relative modern pc (basically every core i series and equivalent AMD, like an old 2ng gen i5 2400) it will run much faster and consumes way less energy. Keeping old technology alive is good if it's worth running, but you have to consider power consumption in the equation. Of course it doesn't counts for retro stuff, but that's just for fun, not for everyday use.

I have two late era G4's, an imac and a 17" Powerbook 1.5Ghz. Im going to try this on one of them.

I just spent an evening banging my head against a wall trying to get Adelie Linux installed on my Mac Mini G4, so your claim of providing workarounds for the various issues is quite welcome. -Follow up: It worked, but everything has a blue-ish tint. So that's strange.

The arms do have an attached body, amazing.

@15:00 i got to do something similar to boot Adelie on my Quicksilver (i have a 2.5in sata bay in a rear IO slot that i swap SSD's with different OS's on so i made sure to write the command to boot on a sticker on the SSD)

May you never have a single tangled cable again in your life for doing this..... you Sir are a PPC/Linux legend... thank you !

A thousand thanks for this video Sean. I'd tried before but got stuck. Right now I'm installing on a macmini 1.33 with 1GB RAM. It's installing plasma at the mo. I might try the Mate version as well after. I have a mSATA in an old 2005 era Dell laptop. Might pull it out and try that as well but I'll do a bit of research first. I've read it can be hit and miss with these mSATAs and adaptors with macs.

that focus at 17:39 is pretty darn cool lol

You've got some pretty good terminal skills.

Just what I was looking for.

Nice this look like the ticket for my iMac !

1:01 Action Retro's Face Reveal!

Also, with the first model of the powerbook g4 for leopard, i had to spoof the cpu speed on openfirmware, then, i could simply type "multi-boot" and it will give the multiboot menu so i would not need to type the usb port loading command for the flash drive there

Action Retro on Christmas day - It's a Christmas mericle! Merry Christmas everyone!

We’d like more Linux shenanigans for sure. Maybe a Gentoo install? Tried Adélie on my PowerMac G4 and got greeted by a black screen after booting. Thinking I’d try the other MDD PowerMac G4 some day soon. I just need to get them networked somehow:/

For not having to change every time open firmware the boot partition maybe if PowerPC macs support it you can add boot options for macOS in the grub

Woohoo! I almost missed this!

For multiboot I know that for yaboot (grub alternative on Ubuntu flavors) you can have it ask which systems to boot up after the boot loader posts, ‘m’ for Mac, ‘l’ for Linux or … another letter i never use either ‘c’ for cd or something like that. I’m sure you can edit the grub text file to add that.

proper way to build a support system in my humble opinion. Start at the root( no pun intended) and then go ahead and do walk-troughs of the multitude of likely appearing problems

Be really cool to see how far this could go on a 2GHz PowerMac G5!

Did you ever watch art attack for inspiration for the hand gestures? (Classic early 90's UK kids tv if not) also top content!

Maybe next time try installing NetBSD on a 68K Mac? Its latest version is available for 68K although probably only can run on a CLI, but that could be an interesting video.

Woaaaah! I thought you were just a disembodied arm!!

You should do more in-person videos.

Nice, but I can't strand KDE Plasma, so I'm glad they have MATE, and LXQT options which run lighter anyways.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all!

I'm a Mac and I'm a Linux Distro I'm a PC guy: hey that's illegal! Apple secret police: APPLE OPEN UP!! Action Retro: Release the cursed Macintosh! Everyone else Ahhhhhhhhh!!

Wait… is this a face reveal? Was worth the wait!

T2 linux also supports PPC among many other older architectures. Correct me if I’m wrong. Its not Debian, sure, but its very well maintained.

@benjaminandreasable

Жыл бұрын

T2 not Debian its an own Distro i think from Germany

So in a very sudden and happy twist of events, a friend of mine GAVE ME an iMac G4 today that he'd had in storage since the early 2010s. I'll be working through getting Adelie set up soon!

@ActionRetro

2 жыл бұрын

Nice!

Appreciate the accurate title

@ActionRetro

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Steve 😂

Horizon-UI is simple but effective! Cool video Sean! I might try it out on my iBook G4!

The Face behind the fancy Hands!! 😮😮😮😮

Whoa...face reveal! Did NOT see that coming!

This worked like a cham! FInally breathing life into my old iMac

Woah, he actually has a face! :D He should show it more often.

@turnkit

2 жыл бұрын

yes, and lower the normal of jerking hands. they are a bit funny but get distracting.

What's crazy is that this is only a very early version of Adelie. Imagine what us nerds will be able to do in a couple of year's time!

0:45 idk, voidppc is still great, and has good package support too (I'm not a fanboy I promise)

@djdeetsdroppingthosefunkyb1236

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, also bedrock supports hijacking ppc and Debian Sid can be converted to Fienixppc 32 bit

@alfiegordon9013

2 жыл бұрын

@@djdeetsdroppingthosefunkyb1236 oh damn, I didn't realise bedrock was multiplatform, I thought it was x86_64 only, although IG with the limited number of ppc distros it probably functionally is

@lepidotos

2 жыл бұрын

Void PPC is dropping big endian in January.

HE HAS A FACE. ;) Great demo!

Still want to see some videoguides on dual (multi) booting OSX and PPC Linux or MorphOS. Got a G4 Mini and G5 iMacs to play with and need some guidance from the Master

You should do a vid on making the most of this system by using it to do a 720p video edit 🤔

Great work, please let us know is is possible to run spotify from live cd

Perfection! 🥰😍

Re booting into OS/X -- is the os-prober package available on Adélie? It works alongside grub to detect other bootable partitions and chain boot them. Then you just leave it with grub, and (hopefully) see the Mac partitions in the boot menu. :)

@taragwendolyn

2 жыл бұрын

You can manually edit the grub menu to add additional boot options as well... just that os-prober is a much more newbie-friendly way to do it

@HamishMcIntyreBhatty

2 жыл бұрын

I actually have no idea if GRUB can boot PowerPC macOS. It can't boot modern macOS IIRC, but I'll give it a try

Pay no attention to the shenanigans of the man in the hoodie💚♻

@ActionRetro

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha

Will be giving this a try on my iBook G4 shortly. Been disappointed with PPC Linux for a while now and reverted to running an ancient copy of Ubuntu 6.06 on it just for giggles and nostalgia.

@cornel9472

2 жыл бұрын

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Hi, Great video. Is there a way to enable trim for SSD with Adelie?

I need to try this at some point with my PowerMac G5, this is neat! I wonder if rEFInd exists for PowerPC?

@DTYPTM

2 жыл бұрын

rEFInd is only for EFI Macs as far as i know hence the name.

FACE!!!!!!!!

@NYXsucksatyoutube

Жыл бұрын

Wut

Oh man I always wanted one of these.. never could afford one new

you are so wonderfull to make it real

I appreciate the time you put into this video but the UI looks like a Windows clone. Isn't there a desktop manager that looks like a Mac?

Finally, a face with the voice!

Hi ActionHero, Thanks a lot for this detailed description that is very helpful. Whitout this video... no chance for me. I installed Adelie on my iMac G5 and all worked as you described. But at last the plasma-desktop is blue-ish (without the brownish half) and there are no applications or system settings and so on. It is not the same like Adelie-live. Have you an idea whats wrong?

@ojcarillo

2 жыл бұрын

I have the exact same issue, just finished installing it on a Quicksilver G4... no applications, strange blue-is colors.

@DTYPTM

2 жыл бұрын

Same thing for me here. I tried installing Adélie on a PowerBook G4 1.67GHz. Installed just fine but i also have a blue-ish tint on everything and no software at all, not even a console. For the blue tint i suspect a compatibility issue with the Radeon 9700 maybe? Will try installing on an eMac 1.42GHz that has a 9600 to see if the same problem occurs. Also, is there a way to install all packages on the live version onto the hdd install? Thanks.

There used to be PPC boot loaders but I'm not sure if anyone makes them anymore. Your biggest problem even if you do get a new version of Firefox installed is HTML5. The overheads of HTML5 will crash a PPC mac (even a G5) if you try to watch video on it.

Have you tried VOID PPC Linux, at least, it was in a better shape back in august 2020 when i tried it, yet, x11 did not like the CRT with a bug that was there for a couple years that was patched that same week yet not pushed on the repo of VOID, moved to do something else that week and give up on it.

Tried to use your tutorial to install Adelie Linux to a qemu VM. The partition part worked as you showed. Unfortunately, it still failed on a last step, saying that some packages are missing in the repository :( probably, the problem is on Adelie's side

The Horizon-based Live CD flavours are broken on all platforms, not just Mac. The only safe ISO is the NotLiveCD, which boots into raw X11 and runs Horizon without any DE. From there, install one of the proposed options, but don't use Custom, the script doesn't handle the dependencies of what you choose. Select Text-mode and then install the rest manually from the package manager.

Yep. The Horizon installer is very glitchy. Hopefully these tips will get me success on my G5.

Thanks, any chance of having an install video with a totally empty SSD/SATA Drive?