If I can help an endearing woman watercolor artist/housewife, back in the late 1990's while working for Apple Enterprise Tech Support get Openstep 4.2 on a Toshiba Laptop with all the bells and whistles any 'smart' person with IT knowledge of hardware, device drivers and basic understandings of BIOS within the x86 realm should sure as hell know how to get Debian to install. Just make sure to get the right kind by checking with one of the sites I provided. OWC/Macsales have very reliable and extremely cheap RAM. If you do upgrade the Powerbook, be sure to pick up some RAM (I'd max it out to 512 megs if I were you) while you're at it. I buy all my Mac stuff generally from the fantastic (and fast/cheap/honest) but you can find Sonnet Mac upgrade peripherals at just about any Mac reseller. I've personally bought stuff from Sonnet and can very much recommend them. This page (cached, since the site seems to be down right now) might help you out.Īlso you might want to upgrade the processor to a G4 in that Powerbook and gain OS 10.2 support, not to mention an extreme increase in speed (+Altivec support!) by buying one of these Crescendo G3 or G4 upgrade cards. Verify your hardware is supported from the list belowAs with processor upgrades cards, this particular Powerbook, while officially unsupported, can probably be made to run OS 10.2 with a little ingeniunity and research.
#POWER MAC G4 FOR YOUTUBE LINUX MAC OS X#
Mac OS X does not support the original PowerBook G3 or processor upgrade cards. On the otherhand when my ibook suffered a logicboard melt down (semi-common occurence on my model) I sent in my ibook with debian still on the drive, and it came back fixed, good as new, with the boot loader still functioning and debian still on the drive.
But I have to say Apple has a history of not liking people doing strange things to their macs, if a live CD came out that made installing linux as easy as installing MacOS X then it would draw some negative attention from Apple I think. While there are a few random quirks with getting linux up in general, like how do you right/middle click, etc.They can be easily solved by doing a 30second google.
The trick is researching what drivers you need and compiling a kernel (like the benh fork) before you try futzing with things. I got my iBook online with debian, everything working, in the space of one weekend. While it may take a little trial and error, and you might have to rtfm Debian has in fact come a long way. Debian isn't really as hard as the poster says.
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