My 500 MHz iBook G3. Recently got an Edimax USB Wi-Fi dongle for it which brought it back into modern times and along with its 4hr of battery life makes for a pretty nice laptop
@scarlett7447
What distro does it run?
I'm finishing migrating my G4 MacMini and PowerMac G5 from Void PPC port to mainline void-packages and I have to say I had to build A LOT, and to crossbuild half of it to even make it possible, and of course fix a lot of breakages, but now I have up-to-date software on my PowerPC Macs 😁
G5 is already running kernel 6.5.13 even, I don't think it would be a problem to build one for G4, but would take days, considering my Pleroma instance is running on it 😅
@m0xee Nice! I'm running Void as well
@scarlett7447
Always a pleasure to meet fellow PowerPC enthusiast running Void!
Maybe we should somehow coordinate our efforts — at least to provide update dotconfig files for newer kernels for the mainline void-packages and maybe even put our up-to-date xbps-packages somewhere — so each one of us doesn't have to rebuild them individually. Some software takes time to build even on modern machines, like gcc, llvm, rust, mesa, firefox… And building natively on these machines might take days 😩
@scarlett7447 @m0xee i install MorphOS on ppc macs if they are supported (along with leopard) it feels just like a modern Mac OS 9 :) with wayfarer there is even a modern browser for our beloved old macs
@scops Oh yes, I've used it before. I did like it but it seemed to have some issues running on my PowerBook. I'm sure it would be perfect for a desktop tho
@scarlett7447 i use it nearly daily on a mac mini g4 :) it would even better (faster) run on my mdd - but the mini is a lot less noisy.
@m0xee I haven't really had the time to deal with Void PPC these past months as I've mostly switched back to Mac OS Leopard, because it seems to have better software optimisation and hardware support and I'm definitely not smart enough to start writing my own drivers lol
Otherwise, I would love to help