You can boot from Firewire or SATA hard drives on G5s, but not USB. Looks like you have 512 MB of 533 MHz PC2-4200 DDR2 SDRAMĮxpandable to 2.5 GB in your iMac G5 according to Wikipedia.See Debian hardware requirements.ĮDIT: Ubuntu has PPC port as well but it's unofficial and is maintained by the community.It's very difficult to find the download links for it.I don't know why.But at least I found a Ubuntu Server 20.04 for POWER architecture but not PowerPC and I don't think you can run it in your iMac. The Apache OpenOffice User Forum is an user to user help and discussion forum for exchanging information and tips with other users of Apache OpenOffice, the open source office suite. Note if you install 10.5 or later, Mac OS 9 (from 2002 or earlier) will not run on the same partition. As far as I know ubuntu doesn't support PowerPC architecture in the newer releases anymore(To be precise, from Trusty Tahr or 14.04 onwards).However you can download the older versions like 14.04 but that's not maintained in the ubuntu official download repository anymore.So you have to use the Wayback Machine.įortunately I was able to find a working download link for you that was saved in Aug 2015 (If fact it's Lubuntu which has a lighter desktop environment and is more conservative in memory usage) :īut there is also an alternative : You can use Debian for PowerPC if you want to have a newer kernel and more up-to-date and secure packages in your pocket because the PowerPC architecture is supported officially by the Debian group.īut note that despite of the advantages that a newer OS has, it can be quite difficult to run a new OS smoothly in your iMac because the hardware is rather old. TenFourFox 5.0 is a port of Firefox for PowerPC Macs (G3, G4, and G5) that uses modified Firefox source code, rewritten to remain compatible with Mac OS X.
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