<div dir="ltr">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.)<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Depending on what you are trying to accomplish, they have some horsepower. (And look pretty too.)</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature">-Dan<br><br>"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle</div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Rick Troth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rmt@casita.net" target="_blank">rmt@casita.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have an iMac that I got from a friend.<br>
Put Ubuntu on it and then 'chroot' the home-brew stuff. Works.<br>
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Interestingly, the guys at the office had a need for some PPC Linux<br>
stuff. I was able to crank out POC and verification. But now ... maybe<br>
do more? But if we do more, "they" will want to do it on a company-owned<br>
machine. Duh. I get it. (And I don't really want the liability.)<br>
<br>
Anyway ... what kind of machine would y'all recommend? It's not needed<br>
for production work. It's not even a primary architecture. (Does need to<br>
be 64-bit, so has to be a fairly recent box.)<br>
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Thanks.<br>
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