@33c74427f3b2b73d5e38f3e6c991c122a55d204072356f71da49a0e209fb6940 @newt
It can! And it probably runs better than it does on G4 MacMini that I have — AFAIR you could put more RAM in it and use faster storage.
At this point these machines are only useful for retrocomputing.
Mine is headless and runs Linux 6.1 fine, I use it to host Perolma, print server, and a few other things, I also use it as a seedbox. But otherwise usefulness of 32-bit PowerPC machines is severely limited.
@33c74427f3b2b73d5e38f3e6c991c122a55d204072356f71da49a0e209fb6940 @newt
LLVM is always broken => no up to date Rust, Google dropped support for them in Go entirely,
You can get old gccgo to build with a plethora of patches — that would give you Go 1.10, building something useful requires backporting even standard library features. I did that for BloatFE — works fine, but for more complex things would require a lot of work.
@33c74427f3b2b73d5e38f3e6c991c122a55d204072356f71da49a0e209fb6940 @newt
I'm not even touching GUI things — Firefox would probably be TOO slow, it is even on much more powerful PowerMac G5.
But for retrocomputing — still a nice machine, old software still works 🤷
@santiago often posts updates on adventures with the Cube (and G4 Mini too).