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Can a 25-year-old iMac G4 still be useful? 💻 I turned an 800MHz G4 into a Linux terminal for my home servers, after testing Debian, FreeBSD, OSX Tiger & Adélie Linux (twice!). Full video: ▶️ youtu.be/mTXscNYyIoI ▶️ PeerTube: devwithzachary.com/w/aFT9UfsNGy... #RetroComputing #LinuxOnPowerPC #iMacG4

Will be attempting this too - keeping my fingers crossed for Gentoo. If it's a no go, I'll go for Adélie. Wish me luck!

Is that Nvidia or ATI? Did you get the Nvidia driver to work? 😮

iMac G4 17" 1 Ghz Nvidia Geforce 4 MX (I patched the driver using LLMs after enabling hardware acceleration as games crashed initially despite hacc working) 80 GB HDD > 128 GB SSD 256 MB > 2 GB RAM Stock fan > Quieter Noctua fan Took some research and tinkering, but Gentoo works like a dream.

Any tips? Oh wait! So the driver worked but it was unstable? Was it just the driver provided by Debian?