[colug-432] PowerPC hardware recommendations

[Dan Kaiser]

My only experience with PPC has been old Macs as well.  (In fact I'm still
running a local ownCloud server for all my data backup on a G4 Mac Mini.)

I had two G5 Power Macs. The ones with dual processors are 64 bit.
Obviously not in production any longer, but they are still frequently
available on Craigslist or eBay.  I had early, single core versions but
they could hold 16 GB ram.

Depending on what you are trying to accomplish, they have some horsepower.
 (And look pretty too.)

-Dan

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a
habit." - Aristotle

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:

> I have an iMac that I got from a friend.
> Put Ubuntu on it and then 'chroot' the home-brew stuff. Works.
>
> Interestingly, the guys at the office had a need for some PPC Linux
> stuff. I was able to crank out POC and verification. But now ... maybe
> do more? But if we do more, "they" will want to do it on a company-owned
> machine. Duh. I get it. (And I don't really want the liability.)
>
> Anyway ... what kind of machine would y'all recommend? It's not needed
> for production work. It's not even a primary architecture. (Does need to
> be 64-bit, so has to be a fairly recent box.)
>
> Thanks.
>
> -- R; <><
>
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